Status and future of nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay: a review

J Engel, J Menéndez - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The nuclear matrix elements that govern the rate of neutrinoless double beta decay must be
accurately calculated if experiments are to reach their full potential. Theorists have been …

A Guided Tour of ab initio Nuclear Many-Body Theory

H Hergert - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last decade, new developments in Similarity Renormalization Group techniques
and nuclear many-body methods have dramatically increased the capabilities of ab initio …

Discrepancy between experimental and theoretical β-decay rates resolved from first principles

P Gysbers, G Hagen, JD Holt, GR Jansen, TD Morris… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The dominant decay mode of atomic nuclei is beta decay (β-decay), a process that changes
a neutron into a proton (and vice versa). This decay offers a window to physics beyond the …

High-quality two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order of the chiral expansion

DR Entem, R Machleidt, Y Nosyk - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We present NN potentials through five orders of chiral effective field theory ranging from
leading order (LO) to next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N 4 LO). The construction …

Limiting masses and radii of neutron stars and their implications

C Drischler, S Han, JM Lattimer, M Prakash, S Reddy… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We combine the equation of state of dense matter up to twice nuclear saturation density n
sat obtained using chiral effective field theory (χ EFT) and recent observations of neutron …

Nonempirical interactions for the nuclear shell model: an update

SR Stroberg, H Hergert, SK Bogner… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The nuclear shell model has perhaps been the most important conceptual and
computational paradigm for the understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei. While the …

Novel chiral Hamiltonian and observables in light and medium-mass nuclei

V Somà, P Navrátil, F Raimondi, C Barbieri, T Duguet - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Background: Recent advances in nuclear structure theory have led to the availability of
several complementary ab initio many-body techniques applicable to light and medium …

Quantifying uncertainties and correlations in the nuclear-matter equation of state

C Drischler, JA Melendez, RJ Furnstahl, DR Phillips - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We perform statistically rigorous uncertainty quantification (UQ) for chiral effective field
theory (χ EFT) applied to infinite nuclear matter up to twice nuclear saturation density. The …

Three-nucleon forces: Implementation and applications to atomic nuclei and dense matter

K Hebeler - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in nuclear structure theory have significantly enlarged the accessible part
of the nuclear landscape via ab initio many-body calculations. These developments open …

Saturation with chiral interactions and consequences for finite nuclei

J Simonis, SR Stroberg, K Hebeler, JD Holt, A Schwenk - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We explore the impact of nuclear matter saturation on the properties and systematics of finite
nuclei across the nuclear chart. By using the ab initio in-medium similarity renormalization …