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We study the spectra of neutron-rich oxygen isotopes based on chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions. First, we benchmark our many-body approach by comparing ground-state energies to coupled-cluster results for the same two-nucleon interaction, with overall good agreement. We then calculate bound excited states in 21, 22, 23O , focusing on the role of three-nucleon forces, in the standard sd shell and an extended \( sdf_{7/2}p_{3/2}\) valence space. Chiral three-nucleon forces provide important one- and two-body contributions between valence neutrons. We find that both these contributions and an extended valence space are necessary to reproduce key signatures of novel shell evolution, such as the N = 14 magic number and the low-lying states in 21O and 23O , which are too compressed with two-nucleon interactions only. For the extended space calculations, this presents first work based on nuclear forces without adjustments. Future work is needed and open questions are discussed.
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Holt, J.D., Menéndez, J. & Schwenk, A. Chiral three-nucleon forces and bound excited states in neutron-rich oxygen isotopes. Eur. Phys. J. A 49, 39 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2013-13039-2
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