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Ab Initio Nuclear Reaction Theory with Applications to Astrophysics

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An introduction to ab initio nuclear theory with a focus on nuclear reactions is presented. After a high-level overview of ab initio approaches in nuclear physics, a more detailed description is given of the no-core shell model technique equivalent to a large extent to configuration-interaction methods applied in quantum chemistry. The no-core shell model with continuum approach that provides a quantum many-body description of nuclear reactions is then introduced. After a brief review of nuclear reactions important for astrophysics, examples of results of ab initio calculations of radiative capture and transfer reactions in light nuclei are presented.

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The authors thank all collaborators who contributed to the development of NCSMC method, in particular Guillaume Hupin, Kostas Kravvaris, Simone Baroni, Carolina Romero-Redondo, Jérémy Dohet-Eraly, and Angelo Calci. This work was supported by the NSERC Grants No. SAPIN-2016-00033 and SAPPJ-2019-00039 and by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Work Proposal No. SCW0498. TRIUMF receives federal funding via a contribution agreement with the National Research Council of Canada. This work was prepared in part by LLNL under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Computing support came from an INCITE Award on the Summit supercomputer of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL, from the LLNL institutional Computing Grand Challenge Program, and from WestGrid and Compute Canada.

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Navrátil, P., Quaglioni, S. (2023). Ab Initio Nuclear Reaction Theory with Applications to Astrophysics. In: Tanihata, I., Toki, H., Kajino, T. (eds) Handbook of Nuclear Physics . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6345-2_7

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