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Ab Initio Approaches to Nuclear Structure

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Ab initio nuclear structure theory has experienced a phase of ground-breaking developments over the past decade. Compared to the situation in the early 2000s, we now have a rich variety of powerful and complementary tools that connect the underlying theory of the strong interaction to nuclear structure observables. This enables us to describe a much larger domain of nuclei and observables with controlled and quantified theoretical uncertainties—in the ab initio spirit. In this lecture we provide a pedagogical introduction into the ab initio toolbox with a focus on basis expansion approaches, particularly on configuration interaction methods, like the no-core shell model, and decoupling approaches, like the in-medium similarity renormalization group.

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Supported by the DFG through the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1245 (Project ID 279384907) and the BMBF through Verbundprojekt 05P2021 (ErUM-FSP T07, Contract No. 05P21RDFNB). Calculations were performed using the Lichtenberg II high-performance computer at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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Roth, R. (2022). Ab Initio Approaches to Nuclear Structure. In: Lenzi, S.M., Cortina-Gil, D. (eds) The Euroschool on Exotic Beams, Vol. VI. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 1005. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10751-1_3

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