Nuclear-matter equation of state with consistent two- and three-body perturbative chiral interactions uri icon

abstract

  • We compute the energy per particle of infinite symmetric nuclear matter from chiral NLO3 (next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order) two-body potentials plus NLO2 three-body forces. The low-energy constants of the chiral three-nucleon force that cannot be constrained by two-body observables are fitted to reproduce the triton binding energy and the H3-He3 Gamow-Teller transition matrix element. In this way, the saturation properties of nuclear matter are reproduced in a parameter-free approach. The equation of state is computed up to third order in many-body perturbation theory, with special emphasis on the role of the third-order particle-hole diagram. The dependence of these results on the cutoff scale and regulator function is studied. We find that the inclusion of three-nucleon forces consistent with the applied two-nucleon interaction leads to a reduced dependence on the choice of the regulator only for lower values of the cutoff. 2014 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW C

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Coraggio, L., Holt, J. W., Itaco, N., Machleidt, R., Marcucci, L. E., & Sammarruca, F.

citation count

  • 108

complete list of authors

  • Coraggio, L||Holt, JW||Itaco, N||Machleidt, R||Marcucci, LE||Sammarruca, F

publication date

  • April 2014