# Marrying ab initio calculations and Halo-EFT: the case of ${}^7{\rm Li} + n \rightarrow {}^8{\rm Li} + \gamma$

@article{Zhang2013MarryingAI,
title={Marrying ab initio calculations and Halo-EFT: the case of \$\{\}^7\{\rm Li\} + n \rightarrow \{\}^8\{\rm Li\} + \gamma\$},
author={Xilin Zhang and Kenneth M. Nollett and Daniel R. Phillips},
journal={Bulletin of the American Physical Society},
year={2013}
}
• Published 30 March 2013
• Materials Science
• Bulletin of the American Physical Society
We report a leading-order calculation of radiative ${}^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ neutron captures to both the ground and first excited state of ${}^{8}\mathrm{Li}$ in the framework of a low-energy effective field theory (Halo-EFT). Each of the possible final states is treated as a shallow bound state composed of both $n+{}^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ and $n+{}^{7}\mathrm{Li}^{*}$ (core excitation) configurations. The {\it ab initio} variational Monte Carlo method is used to compute the asymptotic normalization…
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