Local nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions within chiral effective field theory

Understand

To obtain an understanding of the structure and reactions of nuclear systems from first principles has been a long-standing goal of nuclear physics.

• In this respect, few- and many-body systems provide a unique laboratory for studying nuclear interactions.
• During the past decades, the development of accurate representations of the nuclear force has undergone substantial progress.
• Particular emphasis has been devoted to chiral effective field theory (EFT), a low-energy effective representation of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).