Research Director: Kimiko Sekiguchi
(Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Research Term: Oct 2023 - Mar 2029
Grant Number: JPMJER2304

Understanding nuclear properties such as half-lives, reaction rates, etc., from first principles is a great dream of nuclear physicists. Nuclear properties are determined by forces that act between nucleons.
In the project, in order to establish accurate and precise nuclear interactions, the three-nucleon forces are determined from high-precision experiments on few-nucleon systems using chiral effective field theory. A precise quantum many-body calculation method based on the nuclear forces is established, which will allow us to compute nuclear properties with extremely high predictive power. Cold-atom systems are considered to validate the accuracy of the computational method. The newly established calculation framework for nuclear systems will be extended to applied science.

Research Groups

- Determination of three-nucleon force group
- Accurate quantum many-body calculations group
- Quantum simulation experiment of nucleon systems with cold atoms group
- Extension to the applied science - evolution of nuclear data - group