Probing the nuclear force with rare isotopes
ORAL
Abstract
Understanding the nuclear force from the fundamental theory of QCD had been enabled by the chiral effective field theory. The importance of the three-nucleon force has emerged from reconciling observed fundamental properties of nuclei with the predictions. However, there are different prescriptions of the chiral interactions that need to be constrained with experiments.
We will present examples from recent reaction spectroscopy studies at TRIUMF accessing rare isotopes at the drip-lines to show how observables such as excitation spectra and diffraction pattern in nuclear scattering unfold new understanding of the two- and three-nucleon forces and challenges our current knowledge.
*The work is supported by NSERC, CFI, Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust, RCNP and the grant-in-aid program of the Japanese government. TRIUMF receives funding via a contribution through the National Research Council Canada. Computing support came from the LLNL institutional Computing Grand Challenge Program, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at ORNL, the JURECA Supercomputing center, and from Calcul Quebec and Compute Canada. The work is based in part upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics.
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Presenters
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Ritu Kanungo
- Saint Mary's University
- TRIUMF
- Saint Mary's Univ
- St. Mary's University