Lattice effective field theory calculations for A = 3, 4, 6, 12 nuclei

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Apr 9;104(14):142501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.142501. Epub 2010 Apr 8.

Abstract

We present lattice results for the ground state energies of tritium, helium-3, helium-4, lithium-6, and carbon-12 nuclei. Our analysis includes isospin breaking, Coulomb effects, and interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory.