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 …

The neutron and its role in cosmology and particle physics

D Dubbers, MG Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Experiments with cold and ultracold neutrons have reached a level of precision such that
problems far beyond the scale of the present standard model of particle physics become …

Effective field theory for radiative corrections to charged-current processes: Vector coupling

V Cirigliano, W Dekens, E Mereghetti, O Tomalak - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study radiative corrections to low-energy charged-current processes involving nucleons,
such as neutron beta decay and (anti) neutrino-nucleon scattering within a top-down …

Probing novel scalar and tensor interactions from (ultra) cold neutrons to the LHC

T Bhattacharya, V Cirigliano, SD Cohen, A Filipuzzi… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
Scalar and tensor interactions were once competitors to the now well-established VA
structure of the standard model weak interactions. We revisit these interactions and survey …

Pion-Induced Radiative Corrections to Neutron Decay

V Cirigliano, J De Vries, L Hayen, E Mereghetti… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We compute the electromagnetic corrections to neutron β decay using a low-energy
hadronic effective field theory. We identify new radiative corrections arising from virtual pions …

Beta decays and non-standard interactions in the LHC era

V Cirigliano, S Gardner, BR Holstein - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2013 - Elsevier
We consider the role of precision measurements of beta decays and light meson semi-
leptonic decays in probing physics beyond the Standard Model in the LHC era. We describe …

Superallowed nuclear decays: A critical survey with tests of the conserved vector current hypothesis and the standard model

JC Hardy, IS Towner - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2005 - APS
A complete and critical survey is presented of all half-life, decay-energy, and branching-ratio
measurements related to 20 superallowed 0+→ 0+ decays; no measurements are ignored …

Radiative Corrections to Superallowed Decays in Effective Field Theory

V Cirigliano, W Dekens, J de Vries, S Gandolfi… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The accuracy of V ud determinations from superallowed β decays critically hinges on control
over radiative corrections. Recently, substantial progress has been made on the single …

Precision measurements and CKM unitarity

A Czarnecki, WJ Marciano, A Sirlin - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2004 - APS
Determinations of| V ud| and| V us| along with their implications for the unitarity test| V ud| 2+|
V us| 2+| V ub| 2= 1 are discussed. The leading two-loop radiative corrections to neutron β …

Dispersion relation analysis of the radiative corrections to gA in the neutron β-decay

M Gorchtein, CY Seng - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We present the first and complete dispersion relation analysis of the inner radiative
corrections to the axial coupling constant g A in the neutron β-decay. Using experimental …