Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo study of the Hyperon-Nucleon interaction in $Λ$-hypernuclei

Abstract

We investigate the role of two- and three-body $Λ$-nucleon forces by computing the ground state of a few $Λ$-hypernuclei with the Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm. Calculations have been performed for masses up to A=41, including some open-shell hypernuclei. The results show that the use of a bare hyperon-nucleon force fitted on the available scattering data yields a consistent overestimate of the $Λ$-separation energy $B_Λ$. The inclusion of a hyperon-nucleon-nucleon interaction systematically reduces $B_Λ$, leading to a qualitatively good agreement with experimental data over the range of masses investigated.

4 pages, 5 figures. Talk given at the XI International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP2012), Oct. 1-5, 2012, Barcelona, Spain