HIC for FAIR logo 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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