Simultaneous binding energies and charge radii of medium-mass nuclei

With NN plus 3N interactions from chiral EFT fitted only to few-body data ($A \le 4$, optionally nuclear-matter saturation), predict ground-state energies and charge radii of 16O, 40Ca, 48Ca and 208Pb within 1 percent, and saturation of symmetric nuclear matter ($n_0$ about $0.16\ \mathrm{fm}^{-3}$, $E/A$ about $-16\ \mathrm{MeV}$). Answer: an interaction with quantified truncation errors meeting these targets, and identification of the 3N terms that control saturation.

Ab initio calculations with Bayesian uncertainty quantification reproducing binding and radii from 4He to 208Pb using interactions fixed in few-body systems.