Improved chiral nucleon-nucleon potential up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order

By Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, U. Meissner. European Physical Journal A, 2014

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We present improved nucleon-nucleon potentials derived in chiral effective field theory up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order. We argue that the nonlocal momentum-space regulator employed in the two-nucleon potentials of previous works (Nucl. Phys. A 747, 362 (2005) and Phys. Rev. C 68, 041001 (2003)) is not the most efficient choice, in particular since it affects the long-range part of the interaction. We are able to significantly reduce finite-cutoff artefacts by using an appropriate regularization in coordinate space which maintains the analytic structure of the amplitude. The new potentials do not require the additional spectral function regularization employed in (Nucl. Phys. A 747, 362 (2005)) to cut off the short-range components of the two-pion exchange and make use of the low-energy constants ci and di determined from pion-nucleon scattering without any fine tuning. We discuss in detail the construction of the new potentials and convergence of the chiral expansion for two-nucleon observables. We also employ a simple approach for estimating the theoretical uncertainty in few-nucleon calculations from the truncation of the chiral expansion that replaces previous reliance on cutoff variation.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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1. H. Hergert
2. I. Tews
3. P. Reinert
4. S. Reddy
5. A. Schwenk
6. Hermann Krebs
7. Evgeny Epelbaum
8. Stefano Gandolfi

Citations in the corpus

• The In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group: A novel ab initio method for nuclei (2015, background): “a variety of efforts to improve on the chiral interactions [30, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153].”
• Constraining the Speed of Sound inside Neutron Stars with Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions and Observations (2018, background): “The uncertainty bands for the individual N2LO interactions are obtained as suggested by Epelbaum et al. (2015), i.e., the uncertainty X N LO2D at order N2LO is given by X Q X X Q X X Q X X max , , , 3 N LO 4 LO free 2 NLO LO N LO NLO 2 2 D = - - - ( ∣ ∣ ∣ ∣ ∣ ∣) ( ) and similar for lower orders.”
• High-Precision Nuclear Forces From Chiral EFT: State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Outlook (2019, methodology): “[21] in combination with the N(2)LO SCS 3NF for the coordinate-space cutoff R = 0.”