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Petr Navrátil1, W Erich Ormand
1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-414, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
Abstract:
We present a qualitative improvement of the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) approach by implementing three-body interaction capability for p-shell nuclei. We report the first calculations using three-body effective interactions derived from realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials for 6Li, 8Be, and 10B and demonstrate that the use of three-body effective interactions speeds up the convergence of the NCSM approach. For 10B, we predict JpiT = 1(+)0 ground state, contrary to the experimental observation of 3(+)0, when the AV8(') potential is used, indicating the need for true three-body forces.
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