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The No Core Shell Model

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As has been discussed in the introduction, the No-Core Shell Model (NCSM), is one of the recently developed ab-initio many-body techniques, for solving bound state properties of light nuclei (\(A \le 20)\)[1–3].

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    The Weinberg power counting scheme is known to be inconsistent. As there is no other viable EFT alternative for the many-body community presently, it is often used in calculations without regard to the issues of renormalization-group invariance.

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Kruse, M.K.G. (2013). The No Core Shell Model. In: Extensions to the No-Core Shell Model. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01393-0_2

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