Role of the Three-Body Interactions in the Ground-States of 3H and 4He Nuclei

TL;DR

This paper investigates the impact of three-body interactions on the ground states of 3H and 4He nuclei using shell model and variational Monte Carlo methods, revealing their significance in nuclear structure calculations.

Contribution

It compares two computational approaches to assess the role of three-body forces in nuclear ground states, incorporating different interaction models.

Findings

Three-body interactions significantly affect binding energies.

Root mean-square radii are sensitive to three-body forces.

Results highlight the importance of three-body forces in nuclear modeling.

Abstract

The role of the three-body interactions in the ground-states of 3H and 4He nuclei has been investigated by using two different methods. Accordingly, the ground-state nuclear wave functions, the binding energies, the root mean-square radii and the first excited-state energies of the 3H and 4He nuclei are investigated by applying the translation invariant shell model with basis functions corresponding to even number of quanta of excitations in the range 0 less than or equal to N less than or equal to 20 and using two residual two-body interactions, given by the first author, together with three-body interaction in the form of a delta force. Furthermore, we have calculated the binding energy and the root mean-square radius of these nuclei by applying the variational Monte Carlo method and using the Reid V_8 two-body potential together with the Urbana model of the three-nucleon interaction.