Gamma spectroscopy with AGATA in its first phases: New insights in nuclear excitations along the nuclear chart

A Bracco, G Duchêne, Z Podolyák, P Reiter - Progress in Particle and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA), the new generation high-
resolution γ-ray spectrometer, has seen the realization of the first phases of its construction …

Radiative corrections to semileptonic beta decays: progress and challenges

CY Seng - Particles, 2021 - mdpi.com
We review some recent progress in the theory of electroweak radiative corrections in
semileptonic decay processes. The resurrection of the so-called Sirlin's representation …

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 …

Electroweak nuclear radii constrain the isospin breaking correction to Vud

CY Seng, M Gorchtein - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
We lay out a novel formalism to connect the isospin-symmetry breaking correction to the
rates of superallowed nuclear beta decays, δ C, to the isospin-breaking sensitive …

Nuclear physics midterm plan at Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL)

M Ballan, S Bottoni, M Caamaño, A Caciolli… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
The next years will see the completion of the radioactive ion beam facility SPES (Selective
Production of Exotic Species) and the upgrade of the accelerators complex at Istituto …

Effective pseudopotential for energy density functionals with higher-order derivatives

F Raimondi, BG Carlsson, J Dobaczewski - Physical Review C—Nuclear …, 2011 - APS
We derive a zero-range pseudopotential that includes all possible terms up to sixth order in
derivatives. Within the Hartree-Fock approximation, it gives the average energy that …

Isospin nonconservation in -shell nuclei

YH Lam, NA Smirnova, E Caurier - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2013 - APS
The question of isospin-symmetry breaking in nuclei of the sd shell is addressed. We
propose a new global parametrization of the isospin-nonconserving shell-model …

Isospin-breaking corrections to superallowed Fermi decay in isospin- and angular-momentum-projected nuclear density functional theory

W Satuła, J Dobaczewski, W Nazarewicz… - Physical Review C …, 2012 - APS
Background: Superallowed β-decay rates provide stringent constraints on physics beyond
the standard model of particle physics. To extract crucial information about the electroweak …

Toward ab-initio nuclear theory calculations of

CY Seng, M Gorchtein - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
We propose a theory framework to study the isospin-symmetry breaking correction δ C in
superallowed nuclear β decays, crucial for the precise determination of| V ud|. Based on a …

Radial overlap correction to superallowed decay reexamined

L Xayavong, NA Smirnova - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Within the nuclear shell model, we investigate the correction δ RO to the Fermi matrix
element due to a mismatch between proton and neutron single-particle radial wave …