Can Modern Nuclear Hamiltonians Tolerate a Bound Tetraneutron?
Abstract
I show that it does not seem possible to change modern nuclear Hamiltonians to bind a tetraneutron without destroying many other successful predictions of those Hamiltonians. This means that, should a recent experimental claim of a bound tetraneutron be confirmed, our understanding of nuclear forces will have to be significantly changed. I also point out some errors in previous theoretical studies of this problem.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.252501
- arXiv:
- arXiv:nucl-th/0302048
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhRvL..90y2501P
- Keywords:
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- 21.30.-x;
- 21.45.+v;
- 21.60.Ka;
- 27.10.+h;
- Nuclear forces;
- Few-body systems;
- Monte Carlo models;
- A<
- =5;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 4 figures Revision corrects a pronoun