title: Morphing the shell model into an effective theory
abstract: We describe a strategy for attacking the canonical nuclear structure problem-bound-state properties of a system of point nucleons interacting via a two-body potential-which involves an expansion in the number of particles scattering at high momenta, but is otherwise exact. The required self-consistent solutions of the Bloch-Horowitz equation for effective interactions and operators are obtained by an efficient Green's function method based on the Lanczos algorithm. We carry out this program for the simplest nuclei, d and 3He, in order to explore the consequences of reformulating the shell model as a controlled effective theory.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Theory, Box 351550, and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Haxton
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Song