New physics searches in nuclear and neutron β decay

M González-Alonso, O Naviliat-Cuncic… - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The status of tests of the standard electroweak model and of searches for new physics in
allowed nuclear β decay and neutron decay is reviewed including both theoretical and …

QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

Colloquium: Three-body forces: From cold atoms to nuclei

HW Hammer, A Nogga, A Schwenk - Reviews of modern physics, 2013 - APS
It is often assumed that few-and many-body systems can be accurately described by
considering only pairwise two-body interactions of the constituents. We illustrate that three …

Chiral effective field theory calculations of weak transitions in light nuclei

GB King, L Andreoli, S Pastore, M Piarulli, R Schiavilla… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We report quantum Monte Carlo calculations of weak transitions in A≤ 10 nuclei, based on
the Norfolk two-and three-nucleon chiral interactions, and associated one-and two-body …

Prospects for precision measurements in nuclear decay in the lhc era

O Naviliat‐Cuncic, M González‐Alonso - Annalen der Physik, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Precision measurements in nuclear β decay offer a sensitive window to search for new
physics beyond the standard electroweak model. Searches for new physics are also a …

Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of neutral-current inclusive quasielastic scattering

A Lovato, S Gandolfi, J Carlson, E Lusk, SC Pieper… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Quasielastic neutrino scattering is an important aspect of the experimental program to study
fundamental neutrino properties including neutrino masses, mixing angles, mass hierarchy …

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of weak transitions in nuclei

S Pastore, A Baroni, J Carlson, S Gandolfi, SC Pieper… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Ab initio calculations of the Gamow-Teller (GT) matrix elements in the β decays of He 6 and
C 10 and electron captures in Be 7 are carried out using both variational and Green's …

Symmetry violations in nuclear and neutron decay

KK Vos, HW Wilschut, RGE Timmermans - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
The role of β decay as a low-energy probe of physics beyond the standard model is
reviewed. Traditional searches for deviations from the standard model structure of the weak …

Ab initio no-core solutions for 6Li

IJ Shin, Y Kim, P Maris, JP Vary… - Journal of Physics G …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We solve for properties of 6 Li in the ab initio no-core full configuration (NCFC) approach
and we separately solve for its ground state and ${J}^{\pi}={2} _ {2}^{+} $ resonance with the …

Matter and charge radius of He in the hyperspherical-harmonics approach

S Bacca, N Barnea, A Schwenk - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2012 - APS
We present ab initio calculations of the binding energy and radii of the two-neutron halo
nucleus 6 He using two-body low-momentum interactions based on chiral effective field …