%0 Generic %1 Machleidt2016Chiral %A Machleidt, R. %A Sammarruca, F. %D 2016 %K nuclear %T Chiral EFT based nuclear forces: Achievements and challenges %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05978 %X During the past two decades, chiral effective field theory has become a popular tool to derive nuclear forces from first principles. Two-nucleon interactions have been worked out up to sixth order of chiral perturbation theory and three-nucleon forces up to fifth order. Applications of some of these forces have been conducted in nuclear few- and many-body systems---with a certain degree of success. But in spite of these achievements, we are still faced with great challenges. Among them is the issue of a proper uncertainty quantification of predictions obtained when applying these forces in ab initio calculations of nuclear structure and reactions. A related problem is the order by order convergence of the chiral expansion. We start this review with a pedagogical introduction and then present the current status of the field of chiral nuclear forces. This is followed by a discussion of representative examples for the application of chiral two- and three-body forces in the nuclear many-body system including convergence issues.

@misc{Machleidt2016Chiral, abstract = {During the past two decades, chiral effective field theory has become a popular tool to derive nuclear forces from first principles. Two-nucleon interactions have been worked out up to sixth order of chiral perturbation theory and three-nucleon forces up to fifth order. Applications of some of these forces have been conducted in nuclear few- and many-body systems---with a certain degree of success. But in spite of these achievements, we are still faced with great challenges. Among them is the issue of a proper uncertainty quantification of predictions obtained when applying these forces in {\it ab initio} calculations of nuclear structure and reactions. A related problem is the order by order convergence of the chiral expansion. We start this review with a pedagogical introduction and then present the current status of the field of chiral nuclear forces. This is followed by a discussion of representative examples for the application of chiral two- and three-body forces in the nuclear many-body system including convergence issues.}, added-at = {2019-02-23T22:09:48.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Machleidt, R. and Sammarruca, F.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/213c4596ca5841d17e2756e1077b01993/cmcneile}, citeulike-article-id = {14120563}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05978}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.05978}, day = 21, eprint = {1608.05978}, interhash = {6d8ece51a11f6f7364dee72779e4096b}, intrahash = {13c4596ca5841d17e2756e1077b01993}, keywords = {nuclear}, month = aug, posted-at = {2016-08-23 12:11:33}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-02-23T22:15:27.000+0100}, title = {{Chiral EFT based nuclear forces: Achievements and challenges}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05978}, year = 2016 }