Nuclear
Physics Colloquium
Location: Physics
Building, PHYS 2.116
Time: Thursday, July 03, 4:30-5:30pm (s.t.) (plus
10min for discussion)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
New frontiers in nuclear
physics: from exotic nuclei to neutron stars
Kai Hebeler (Technical
University Darmstadt)
Experiments
at rare isotope facilities open the way to new exotic regions of the
nuclear chart. In parallel, there are significant theoretical advances
in our understanding of nuclear forces and their applications to nuclei
and nucleonic matter. The interplay of chiral effective field theory,
renormalization group methods and rapidly increasing computer power are
enabling the development of new many-body methods to investigate nuclear
systems microscopically over a wide range of particle numbers. In this
presentation I will give a general introduction to these exciting
developments and discuss recent results on the nuclear equation of state
and exotic nuclei. Motivated by the exciting role of 3N forces, I will
also discuss current developments on the next-order three-nucleon forces
in chiral effective field theory, which are completely predicted and
therefore crucial for tests and improved precision of the theory.
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