2025/01/14 by Marco Knöll, Robert Roth, Knöll, Marco +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · #Advanced Materials and Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry #Structural Analysis and Optimization
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.08013
openalex publication_date 2025/01/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We extend the concept of natural orbitals as an optimized single-particle basis for ab initio nuclear many-body calculations to hypernuclei and show that their superior properties, in particular accelerated convergence and independence of the underlying harmonic-oscillator frequency, can be directly transferred to the hypernuclear regime as demonstrated in no-core shell model calculations for selected p-shell hypernuclei. Moreover, the radial single-particle wavefunctions associated with the natural-orbital basis yield important structural information with respect to the different particle species allowing us to identify a hyperon halo in ΛHe5. We further explore nucleonic and hyperonic halo structures in A=6 and A=7 singly-strange hypernuclei based on one-body densities and point-particle radii obtained from no-core shell model calculations with realistic interactions from chiral effective field theory.