Magnetic moments of A=3 nuclei obtained from chiral effective field theory operators

Abstract

Chiral effective field theory (χEFT) provides a framework for obtaining internucleon interactions in a systematically improvable fashion from first principles, while also providing for the derivation of consistent electroweak current operators. In this work, we apply consistently derived interactions and currents towards calculating the magnetic dipole moments of the A=3 systems H3 and He3. We focus here on LENPIC interactions obtained using semilocal coordinate-space (SCS) regularization. Starting from the momentum-space representation of the LENPIC χEFT vector current, we derive the SCS-regularized magnetic dipole operator up through next-to-next-to-leading order (N2LO). We then carry out no-core shell-model calculations for H3 and He3 systems using the SCS LENPIC interaction at N2LO in χEFT and evaluate the magnetic dipole moments obtained using the consistently derived one-nucleon and two-nucleon electromagnetic currents. As anticipated by prior results with χEFT currents, the current corrections through N2LO provide improved, but not yet complete, agreement with experiment for the H3 and He3 magnetic dipole moments. © 2023 American Physical Society.