<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><blockquote cite="mid:5980A94E.1070609@jlab.org" type="cite"></blockquote><blockquote cite="mid:5980A94E.1070609@jlab.org" type="cite"></blockquote>Theory Center Seminar<br><blockquote cite="mid:5980A94E.1070609@jlab.org" type="cite"></blockquote>Monday, October 23<br><blockquote cite="mid:5980A94E.1070609@jlab.org" type="cite"></blockquote>1:00pm<br>CEBAF Center, Room L102<br><b><br><span style="font-size: 13px;">Maria Piarulli (Argonne)</span><br style="font-size: 13px;"></b><div><b style="font-size: 13px;">Light-nuclei spectra from chiral dynamics</b><div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><div>In recent years local chiral interactions have been derived and implemented in quantum</div><div>Monte Carlo methods for nuclear physics to test to what extent chiral effectice field theory</div><div>framework impacts our knowledge of few- and many-body systems. We present quantum</div><div>Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei based on local chiral two-nucleon interactions constructed </div><div>by our group in a previous work in conjuction with a chiral three-nucleon force fitted</div><div>to bound- and scattering-state observables in the three-body sector. These results lead to</div><div>predictions for the energy levels and level ordering of nuclei in the mass range A = 4-12,</div><div>accurate to <= 2% of the binding energy, in very satisfactory agreement with experimental</div><div>data.</div></div></div></div></body></html>