Ab-initio shell model with a core

TL;DR

This paper develops effective two- and three-body Hamiltonians for p-shell nuclei using ab initio no-core shell model calculations, analyzing their components and the significance of higher-body interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a method to derive effective Hamiltonians for p-shell nuclei from ab initio calculations and analyzes the importance of higher-body interactions.

Findings

Effective Hamiltonians are constructed for A=6 and 7 nuclei.

Systematic behavior of Hamiltonian components is analyzed.

Role of three- and higher-body interactions is discussed.

Abstract

We construct effective 2- and 3-body Hamiltonians for the p-shell by performing 12\hbar\Omega ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) calculations for A=6 and 7 nuclei and explicitly projecting the many-body Hamiltonians onto the 0\hbar\Omega space. We then separate these effective Hamiltonians into 0-, 1- and 2-body contributions (also 3-body for A=7) and analyze the systematic behavior of these different parts as a function of the mass number A and size of the NCSM basis space. The role of effective 3- and higher-body interactions for A>6 is investigated and discussed.