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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 7: Structure and Dynamics of Nuclei 2
HK 7.3: Talk
Monday, March 23, 2015, 15:15–15:30, T/SR14
From nuclear matter to finite nuclei⋆ — •Thomas Krüger1,2, Kai Hebeler1,2, and Achim Schwenk2,1 — 1Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt — 2ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
Infinite neutron matter is a unique benchmark system for testing chiral effective field theory iteractions since all many-body forces are predicted to N3LO. However, in finite nuclei shell and surface effects play an important role. These cannot be studied in infinite matter. Combining infinite neutron matter and neutron drops therefore provides important constraints for energy density functionals. For that we use the optimized effective potential method with local chiral interactions to calculate neutron drops in harmonic traps. Our calculations are a first step towards calculations of nuclei in ab initio density functional theory, which connects energy density functionals to chiral effective field theory interactions.
⋆This work was supported by the DFG through Grant SFB 634, the ERC Grant No. 307986 STRONGINT, and by the Helmholtz Alliance HA216/EMMI.