arXiv · 1407.7784
Triton binding energy with realistic precision
Abstract
We compute the binding energy of triton with realistic statistical errors stemming from NN scattering data uncertainties and the deuteron and obtain $E_t=-7.638(15) \, {\rm MeV}$. Setting the numerical precision as $ΔE_t^{\rm num} \lesssim 1 \, {\rm keV}$ we obtain the statistical error $ΔE_t^{\rm stat}= 15(1) \, {\rm keV}$ which is mainly determined by the channels involving relative S-waves. This figure reflects the uncertainty of the input NN data, more than two orders of magnitude larger than the experimental precision $ΔE_t^{\rm exp}= 0.1 \, {\rm keV}$ and provides a bottleneck in the realistic precision that can be reached. This suggests an important reduction in the numerical precision and hence in the computational effort.
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R. Navarro Perez, E. Garrido, J. E. Amaro, E. Ruiz Arriola. 2014-07-29. Triton binding energy with realistic precision. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.90.047001
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