title: Effective field theory for lattice nuclei.
abstract: We show how nuclear effective field theory (EFT) and ab initio nuclear-structure methods can turn input from lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) into predictions for the properties of nuclei. We argue that pionless EFT is the appropriate theory to describe the light nuclei obtained in LQCD simulations carried out at pion masses heavier than the physical pion mass. We solve the EFT using the effective-interaction hyperspherical harmonics and auxiliary-field diffusion Monte Carlo methods. Fitting the three leading-order EFT parameters to the deuteron, dineutron, and triton LQCD energies at m_{π}≈800  MeV, we reproduce the corresponding alpha-particle binding and predict the binding energies of mass-5 and mass-6 ground states.
authors.affiliation: Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Barnea
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Contessi
authors.affiliation: Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gazit
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy and INFN-TIFPA Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pederiva
authors.affiliation: Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Sud, F-91406 Orsay, France and Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: van Kolck