Local two- and three-nucleon chiral interactions

TL;DR

This paper reviews local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions derived from chiral effective field theory and discusses recent nuclear physics results obtained using these models.

Contribution

It provides a concise overview of local chiral nuclear interactions and reports recent findings in nuclear systems using these models.

Findings

Recent results for nuclear systems using local chiral interactions.

Advances in modeling nuclear interactions with chiral effective field theory.

Summary of local chiral interaction models in nuclear physics.

Abstract

Understanding the structure and reactions of nuclei from first principles has been a long-standing goal of nuclear physics. In this respect, few- and many-body systems provide a unique laboratory for studying nuclear interactions. In the past couple of decades, the modeling of nuclear interactions has progressed significantly owing, in particular, to the development of chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT), a low-energy effective representation of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Within $\chi$EFT, many studies have dealt with the construction of both two- and three-nucleon interactions. The aim of the present article is to provide a concise account of chiral interaction models that are local in configuration space, and to report on a selection of recent results for nuclear systems obtained with these interactions.