Neutron matter at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral   effective field theory
  Neutron matter presents a unique system for chiral effective field theory (EFT), because all many-body forces among neutrons are predicted to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). We present the first complete N3LO calculation of the neutron matter energy. This includes the subleading three-nucleon (3N) forces for the first time and all leading four-nucleon (4N) forces. We find relatively large contributions from N3LO 3N forces. Our results provide constraints for neutron-rich matter in astrophysics with controlled theoretical uncertainties. 
I. Tews, T. Krueger, K. Hebeler, A. Schwenk
nucl-th astro-ph.SR hep-ph nucl-ex