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Ab Initio Calculation of the Hoyle State
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The Hoyle state plays a crucial role in the helium burning of stars heavier than our Sun and in the production of carbon and other elements necessary for life. This excited state of the carbon-12 nucleus was postulated by Hoyle as a necessary ingredient for the fusion of three alpha particles to produce carbon at stellar temperatures. Although the Hoyle state was seen experimentally more than a half century ago nuclear theorists have not yet uncovered the nature of this state from first principles. In this Letter we report the first ab initio calculation of the low-lying states of carbon-12 using supercomputer lattice simulations and a theoretical framework known as effective field theory. In addition to the ground state and excited spin-2 state, we find a resonance at -85(3) MeV with all of the properties of the Hoyle state and in agreement with the experimentally observed energy.
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- Authors
- Epelbaum, E., Krebs, H., Lee, D., & Meißner, U.-G.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2011-05-09
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 192501-192501
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2040168427
- Cited by
- 422
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 27.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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