A new tool in nuclear physics: Nuclear lattice simulations

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In the last years, chiral effective field theory has been successfully developed for and applied to systems with few nucleons.

• Here, I present a new approach for ab initio calculations of nuclei that combines these precise and systematic forces with Monte Carlo simulation techniques that allow for exact solutions of the nuclear A-body problem.
• A short introduction of this method is given and a few assorted results concerning the spectrum and structure of 12C and 16O are presented.
• The framework further allows one to study the properties of nuclei in worlds that have fundamental parameters different from the ones in Nature.