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R. J. McCarthy

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arXiv1993

Simple approximation for the starting-energy-independent two-body effective interaction with applications to 6Li

We apply the Lee-Suzuki iteration method to calculate the linked-folded diagram series for a new Nijmegen local NN potential. We obtain an exact starting-energy-independent effective two-body interaction for a multi-shell, no-core, harmonic-oscillator model space. It is found that the resulting effective-interaction matrix elements can be well approximated by the Brueckner G-matrix elements evaluated at starting energies selected in a simple way. These starting energies are closely related to the energies of the initial two-particle states in the ladder diagrams. The ``exact'' and approximate effective interactions are used to calculate the energy spectrum of 6Li in order to test the utility of the approximate form.

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arXiv1993

Minimizing Effective Many-Body Interactions

A simple two-level model is developed and used to test the properties of effective interactions for performing nuclear structure calculations in truncated model spaces. It is shown that the effective many-body interactions sensitively depend on the choice of the single-particle basis and they appear to be minimized when a self- consistent Hartree-Fock basis is used.

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arXiv1993

Microscopic Calculations of the Spectra of Light Nuclei

We perform large-space shell-model calculations for the low-lying energy spectra of a few light nuclei, $^4\mbox{He}$, $^5\mbox{He}$, $^6\mbox{Li}$ and $^7\mbox{Li}$, in a no-core model space with a realistic effective two-body interaction (Brueckner G-matrix). Our G-matrices are calculated for the Reid-soft-core potential in a harmonic oscillator basis. Single-particle ``-U'' insertions are replaced by two-particle ``-U'' insertions and are included in the G matrix calculations, which sum them to all orders. With the starting energy of the G-matrix chosen to give approximately the experimental binding energy, we obtain nuclear energy spectra which are in reasonable agreement with experiment. We also investigate the dependence of our results on the size of the model space and on the harmonic oscillator basis parameter ($\hbarΩ$).

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