Chiral nucleon-nucleon forces in nuclear structure calculations

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent nuclear structure calculations using chiral perturbation theory-derived potentials, linking nuclear physics with QCD and enhancing ab-initio and shell-model methods.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of recent advances in nuclear structure calculations based on chiral nuclear potentials, emphasizing their theoretical foundation and applications.

Findings

Successful application of chiral potentials in finite nuclei

Insights into nuclear matter properties from chiral forces

Enhanced accuracy in nuclear structure modeling

Abstract

Realistic nuclear potentials, derived within chiral perturbation theory, are a major breakthrough in modern nuclear structure theory, since they provide a direct link between nuclear physics and its underlying theory, namely the QCD. As a matter of fact, chiral potentials are tailored on the low-energy regime of nuclear structure physics, and chiral perturbation theory provides on the same footing two-nucleon forces as well as many-body ones. This feature fits well with modern advances in ab-initio methods and realistic shell-model. Here, we will review recent nuclear structure calculations, based on realistic chiral potentials, for both finite nuclei and infinite nuclear matter.