Anna McCoy

	Anna McCoy Postdoctoral Research Associate, TRIUMF TRIUMF, MOB 223 4004 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3 Canada   604-222-1047-6446 amccoy@triumf.ca
	Research Topics The nucleus is a complex, highly-correlated, quantum many-body system. And yet, simple collective phenomena, including nuclear rotation, deformation and collective excitations, arises even in the lightest nuclei. Some of the fundamental questions I seek to answer are how does the nuclear structure arise starting from the interactions between protons and neutrons, and how does that structure lead to collective behavior. My research efforts are directed towards developing methods for obtaining predictions for nuclear structure and reactions starting from the inter-nucleon interactions derived from quantum chromodynamics using, e.g., chiral effective field theory. In particular, I am developing the symplectic no-core configuration interaction (SpNCCI) framework which uses approximate symmetries of the nucleus to bring the computationally challenging nuclear many-body problem into a tractable form. I also work on the no-core shell model with continuum (NCSMC) which provides a fully consistent description of both bound and scattering states of nuclei.   Publications