Ab initio Nuclear Theory: A Crash Course

Overview

Speaker:

Georgios Palkanoglou (TRIUMF)

This intensive course will provide an introduction to modern ab initio nuclear theory, focusing on fundamental concepts and state-of-the-art computational approaches to the nuclear many-body problem. The course is designed for graduate students & postdoctoral researchers interested in computational methods, nuclear structure and quantum many-body physics.

Contents

1. Introduction to one-body, two-body, and many-body correlations
2. Pairing correlations: going beyond the Slater determinant(s)
3. Nuclear forces (and how to fake them)
4. Ab initio approaches to the nuclear many-body problem: Quantum Monte Carlo
5. Ab initio approaches to the nuclear many-body problem: No-Core Shell Model
6. Computational Lab: solving the BCS gap equations for neutrons (using Chiral EFT forces) and for cold atomic systems

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