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<p><font size="+1">Theory Center Seminar<br>
Mon., Oct. 23, 2017<br>
1:00 p.m. (coffee at 12:45 p.m.)<br>
CEBAF Center, Room L102<br>
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Maria Piarulli<br>
Argonne National Laboratory<br>
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<b>Light-Nuclei Spectra from Chiral Dynamics</b><br>
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<div><font size="+1">In recent years local chiral interactions
have been derived and implemented in quantum Monte Carlo <br>
methods for nuclear physics to test to what extent chiral
effective field theory framework impacts our <br>
knowledge of few- and many-body systems. We present
quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei <br>
based on local chiral two-nucleon interactions constructed
by our group in a previous work in conjunction <br>
with a chiral three-nucleon force fitted to bound- and
scattering-state observables in the three-body sector. <br>
These results lead to predictions for the energy levels
and level ordering of nuclei in the mass range A = 4-12, <br>
accurate to <= 2% of the binding energy, in very
satisfactory agreement with experimental data.</font></div>
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