Nuclear Lattice Simulations with EFT

TL;DR

This paper combines chiral effective field theory with lattice methods to study nuclear and neutron matter, providing results for hot neutron matter at specific temperatures and densities.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach integrating EFT with lattice simulations to analyze nuclear matter properties.

Findings

Results for hot neutron matter at 20-40 MeV temperatures

Data on neutron matter densities below twice nuclear matter density

Demonstration of the feasibility of lattice EFT methods in nuclear physics

Abstract

This proceedings article is a summary of results from work done in collaboration with Bugra Borasoy and Thomas Schaefer. We study nuclear and neutron matter by combining chiral effective field theory with non-perturbative lattice methods. We present results for hot neutron matter at temperatures 20 to 40 MeV and densities below twice nuclear matter density.