Frontiers in Ab Initio Nuclear Structure Theory
Prof. Robert Roth (TU Darmstadt)

Two concurring developments are presently driving the field of nuclear theory to a completely new level: First, the development of innovative many-body approaches for the ab initio study of nuclear structure and reactions from light to medium-mass nuclei and hypernuclei. Second, the advances of chiral effective field theory for the construction of consistent nuclear interactions and electromagnetic operators. Together these developments open a new arena for ab initio nuclear theory with immediate impact on present and future experiments.

I will highlight the frontiers in ab initio nuclear theory and discuss recent developments and applications. This includes novel and highly efficient many-body methods for a comprehensive description of nuclei throughout the nuclear chart, the systematic study of electromagnetic observables, and the rigorous quantification of theory uncertainties for all steps of the calculation.