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Coupling the Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) and the Coupled Cluster (CC) Methods: A Way Towards Continuum Spectra of “Not-So-Few-Body” Systems

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Here we summarize how the LIT and CC methods can be coupled, in order to allow for ab initio calculations of reactions in medium mass nuclei. Results on 16O are reviewed and preliminary calculations on 40Ca are presented.

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Correspondence to Giuseppina Orlandini.

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This work was supported by the MIUR grant PRIN-2009TWL3MX, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the National Research Council of Canada, the Israel Science Foundation (Grant number 954/09), the US–Israel Binational Science Foundation (Grant No 2012212), the Office of Nuclear Physics, U.S. Department of Energy (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and DE-SC0008499 (NUCLEI SciDAC collaboration). Computer time was provided by the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility located in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, and used computational resources of the National Center for Computational Sciences, the National Institute for Computational Sciences.

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Orlandini, G., Bacca, S., Barnea, N. et al. Coupling the Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) and the Coupled Cluster (CC) Methods: A Way Towards Continuum Spectra of “Not-So-Few-Body” Systems. Few-Body Syst 55, 907–911 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-013-0772-4

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