Quantum Monte Carlo methods for nuclear physics

J Carlson, S Gandolfi, F Pederiva, SC Pieper… - Reviews of modern …, 2015 - APS
Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proved valuable to study the structure and reactions of
light nuclei and nucleonic matter starting from realistic nuclear interactions and currents …

Solar fusion cross sections. II. The chain and CNO cycles

EG Adelberger, A García, RGH Robertson… - Reviews of Modern …, 2011 - APS
The available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the
Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production are summarized and …

Ab initio no core shell model

BR Barrett, P Navrátil, JP Vary - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
Motivated by limitations of the Bloch–Horowitz–Brandow perturbative approach to nuclear
structure we have developed the non-perturbative ab initio no core shell model (NCSM) …

Radioactive decays at limits of nuclear stability

M Pfützner, M Karny, LV Grigorenko, K Riisager - Reviews of modern physics, 2012 - APS
The last decades brought impressive progress in synthesizing and studying properties of
nuclides located very far from the beta stability line. Among the most fundamental properties …

Neutron star structure with modern nucleonic three-body forces

ZH Li, HJ Schulze - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2008 - APS
We provide convenient parametrizations of the high-density nuclear equation of state
obtained within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach using different modern nucleon …

Recent progress in the electroweak structure of light nuclei using quantum Monte Carlo methods

GB King, S Pastore - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Nuclei will play a prominent role in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model as the
active material in experiments. In order to reliably interpret new physics signals, one needs …

Electromagnetic reactions on light nuclei

S Bacca, S Pastore - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Electromagnetic reactions on light nuclei are fundamental to advance our understanding of
nuclear structure and dynamics. The perturbative nature of the electromagnetic probes …

Chiral effective field theory calculations of weak transitions in light nuclei

GB King, L Andreoli, S Pastore, M Piarulli, R Schiavilla… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We report quantum Monte Carlo calculations of weak transitions in A≤ 10 nuclei, based on
the Norfolk two-and three-nucleon chiral interactions, and associated one-and two-body …

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electromagnetic moments and transitions in nuclei with meson-exchange currents derived from chiral effective field theory

S Pastore, SC Pieper, R Schiavilla, RB Wiringa - Physical Review C—Nuclear …, 2013 - APS
Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electromagnetic moments and transitions are reported
for A≤ 9 nuclei. The realistic Argonne v 18 two-nucleon and Illinois-7 three-nucleon …

Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of light and medium-mass nuclei with local chiral interactions

D Lonardoni, S Gandolfi, JE Lynn, C Petrie, J Carlson… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Quantum Monte Carlo methods have recently been employed to study properties of nuclei
and infinite matter using local chiral effective-field-theory interactions. In this work, we …