Few- and many-nucleon systems with semilocal coordinate-space regularized chiral two- and three-body forces

E. Epelbaum, J. Golak, K. Hebeler, T. Hüther, H. Kamada, H. Krebs, P. Maris, U.-G. Meißner, A. Nogga, R. Roth, R. Skibiński, K. Topolnicki, J. P. Vary, K. Vobig, H. Witała

Phys. Rev. C 99, 024313 (2018)
[arXiv:1807.02848]

We present a complete calculation of nucleon-deuteron scattering as well as ground and low-lying excited states of light nuclei in the mass range A=3-16 up through next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory using semilocal coordinate-space regularized two- and three-nucleon forces. It is shown that both of the low-energy constants entering the three-nucleon force at this order can be reliably determined from the triton binding energy and the differential cross section minimum in elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering. The inclusion of the three-nucleon force is found to improve the agreement with the data for most of the considered observables.

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