  Recently, precision laser spectroscopy on 6He atoms determined accurately the
isotope shift between 4He and 6He and, consequently, the charge radius of 6He.
A similar experiment for 8He is under way. We have performed large-scale ab
initio calculations for 4,6,8He isotopes using high-precision nucleon-nucleon
(NN) interactions within the no-core shell model (NCSM) approach. With the
CD-Bonn 2000 NN potential we found point-proton root-mean-square (rms) radii of
4He and 6He 1.45(1) fm and 1.89(4), respectively, in agreement with experiment
and predict the 8He point proton rms radius to be 1.88(6) fm. At the same time,
our calculations show that the recently developed nonlocal INOY NN potential
gives binding energies closer to experiment, but underestimates the charge
radii.
