Bayesian predictions for A=6 nuclei using eigenvector continuation emulators

T. Djärv, A. Ekström, C. Forssén, H. T. Johansson

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Abstract

We make ab initio predictions for the A=6 nuclear level scheme based on two- and three-nucleon interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory (χEFT). We utilize eigenvector continuation and Bayesian methods to quantify uncertainties stemming from the many-body method, the χEFT truncation, and the low-energy constants of the nuclear interaction. The construction and validation of emulators is made possible via the development of jupiterncsm - a new M-scheme no-core shell model code that uses on-the-fly Hamiltonian matrix construction for efficient, single-node computations up to Nmax=10 for Li6. We find a slight underbinding of He6 and Li6, although consistent with experimental data given our theoretical error bars. As a result of incorporating correlated χEFT-truncation errors we find more precise predictions (smaller error bars) for separation energies: Sd(Li6)=0.89±0.44MeV, S2n(He6)=0.20±0.60MeV, and for the beta decay Q value: Qβ-(He6)=3.71±0.65MeV. We conclude that our error bars can potentially be reduced further by extending the model space used by jupiterncsm.

Original languageEnglish
Article number014005
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume105
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2022

Funding

We thank P. Navrátil for useful discussions and for making it possible to perform validation of results from jupiterncsm and ncsd . This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council, Grant No. 2017-04234 (T.D., C.F.), and the European Research Council (ERC) European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant Agreement No. 758027 (A.E.). Parts of the computations were enabled by resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering (C3SE) and the National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) partially funded by the Swedish Research Council.

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