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Investigations of the Few-Nucleon Systems within the LENPIC Project

by Jacek Golak,Evgeny Epelbaum,Alessandro Grassi,Hiroyuki Kamada,Hermann Krebs,Patrick Reinert,Roman Skibi\'nski,Volodymyr Soloviov,Kacper Topolnicki,Vitalii Urbanevych,Yuriy Volkotrub,Henryk Wita{\l}a

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Jacek Golak
Submission information
Preprint Link: scipost_201910_00002v1  (pdf)
Date submitted: Oct. 7, 2019, 2 a.m.
Submitted by: Jacek Golak
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: 24th European Few Body Conference (EFB2019)
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Nuclear Physics - Theory
  • Quantum Physics
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

Results presented in this contribution are obtained within the Low Energy Nuclear Physics International Collaboration (LENPIC). LENPIC aims to develop chiral nucleon-nucleon and many-nucleon interactions complete through at least the fourth order in the chiral expansion. These interactions will be used together with consistently derived current operators to solve the structure and reactions of light and medium-mass nuclei including electroweak processes. In this contribution the current status of the chiral nuclear forces and current operators will be briefly discussed. A special role played by the calculations of nucleon-deuteron scattering will be explained.

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Reports on this Submission

Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2019-11-12 (Invited Report)

  • Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:scipost_201910_00002v1, delivered 2019-11-12, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.1314

Strengths

Clear and comprehensive review of the status of the LENPIC collaboration.

Weaknesses

Misses a global view of how this work is embedded with the rest of the field.

Report

The author gives a comprehensive review of the work carried out by the LENPIC collaboration, with emphasis on the development of nuclear forces and currents and focussing on their performance for few-body observables. This summary will certainly be a helpful short-reference for the community, however, it does lack information about how these results compare to other effort in the field.

To improve the utility for non specialised users in the filed, I strongly suggest adding further comments to the manuscript as follows:

  • Sec. 3 discusses the introduction of new N4LO interactions with local (and semi-local) regularization, as well as the issues in combining them with matching 3NFs. How does these new forces compare to data? What are the implications for, e.g., the Ay puzzle? Fig. 1, does not show any comparison with the experiment...

  • Other authors (e.g., Entem, Machleidt and Nosyk) have developed nuclear forces up to N4/N5LO. Likewise there are saturating interactions such as NNLOsat that are successfully used in applications: The manuscript should mention these efforts (at least for correctness). Also, it would be very valuable if the authors could comment on how LENPIC interactions perform compared to these other efforts.

  • In the discussion of currents, Sec. 4, it is never rally mentioned what are the limits of application, especially in relation to the applied cutoffs. This information on the state-of-the-art is quite relevant given that a large portion of experiments with electron and weak probes that implies very large transferred momenta.

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  • validity: high
  • significance: high
  • originality: high
  • clarity: high
  • formatting: excellent
  • grammar: excellent

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