Calm Multi-Baryon Operators

Understand

Outstanding problems in nuclear physics require input and guidance from lattice QCD calculations of few baryons systems.

• However, these calculations suffer from an exponentially bad signal-to-noise problem which has prevented a controlled extrapolation to the physical point.
• The variational method has been applied very successfully to two-meson systems, allowing for the extraction of the two-meson states very early in Euclidean time through the use of improved single hadron operators.
• The sheer numerical cost of using the same techniques in two-baryon systems has been prohibitive.