Recent progress in the electroweak structure of light nuclei using quantum Monte Carlo methods

GB King, S Pastore - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Nuclei will play a prominent role in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model as the
active material in experiments. In order to reliably interpret new physics signals, one needs …

Opportunities and Open Questions in Modern Beta Decay

L Hayen - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
For well over half a century, precision studies of neutron and nuclear β decays have been at
the forefront of searches for exotic electroweak physics. Recent advances in nuclear ab initio …

Dispersive formalism for the nuclear structure correction to the decay rate

CY Seng, M Gorchtein - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We analyze the axial γ W-box diagram for I (JP)= 1 (0+) nuclei and provide a dispersion
representation of the nuclear-structure correction δ NS including its energy-dependent part …

Field theory of the Fermi function

RJ Hill, R Plestid - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The Fermi function F (Z, E) accounts for QED corrections to beta decays that are enhanced
at either small electron velocity β or large nuclear charge Z. For precision applications, the …

Renormalization of beta decay at three loops and beyond

K Borah, RJ Hill, R Plestid - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The anomalous dimension for heavy-heavy-light effective theory operators describing
nuclear beta decay is computed through three-loop order in the static limit. The result at …

All orders factorization and the Coulomb problem

RJ Hill, R Plestid - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In the limit of large nuclear charge, Z≫ 1, or small lepton velocity, β≪ 1, Coulomb
corrections to nuclear beta decay and related processes are enhanced as Z α/β and become …

Magnetic structure of nuclei using the Norfolk nuclear models with quantum Monte Carlo methods

G Chambers-Wall, A Gnech, GB King, S Pastore… - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
We present quantum Monte Carlo calculations of magnetic moments, form factors, and
densities of A≤ 10 nuclei within a chiral effective field theory approach. We use the Norfolk …

Fundamental symmetries, neutrons, and neutrinos (FSNN): Whitepaper for the 2023 NSAC long range plan

B Acharya, C Adams, AA Aleksandrova… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This whitepaper presents the research priorities decided on by attendees of the 2022 Town
Meeting for Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons and Neutrinos, which took place December …

Nuclear decay as a probe for physics beyond the Standard Model

M Brodeur, N Buzinsky, MA Caprio, V Cirigliano… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This white paper was submitted to the 2022 Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and
Neutrinos (FSNN) Town Hall Meeting in preparation for the next NSAC Long Range Plan …

A formalism to assess the accuracy of nuclear-structure weak interaction effects in precision β-decay studies

A Glick-Magid, D Gazit - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiple high precision β-decay measurements are being carried out these days on various
nuclei, in search of beyond the Standard Model (SM) signatures. These measurements …