2020 journal article
Energies and radii of light nuclei around unitarity
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A, 56(4).
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Added: April 27, 2020
Light nuclei fall within a regime of universal physics governed by the fact that the two-nucleon scattering lengths are large compared to the typical nuclear interaction range set by one-pion exchange. This places nuclear physics near the so-called unitarity limit in which the scattering lengths are exactly infinite. Effective field theory provides a powerful theoretical framework to capture this separation of scales in a systematic way. It is shown here that the nuclear force can be constructed as a perturbative expansion around the unitarity limit and that this expansion has good convergence properties for both the binding energies of $A=3,4$ nuclei as well as for the radii of these states.
