Toward the discovery of matter creation with neutrinoless decay

M Agostini, G Benato, JA Detwiler, J Menéndez… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The discovery of neutrinoless β β decay could soon be within reach. This hypothetical
ultrarare nuclear decay offers a privileged portal to physics beyond the standard model of …

A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics

J Aalbers, SS AbdusSalam, K Abe… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in
contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the …

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 …

Opportunities for fundamental physics research with radioactive molecules

G Arrowsmith-Kron… - Reports on progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a
wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics …

Theory of nuclear fission

N Schunck, D Regnier - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Atomic nuclei are quantum many-body systems of protons and neutrons held together by
strong nuclear forces. Under the proper conditions, nuclei can break into two (sometimes …

Ab Initio Limits of Atomic Nuclei

SR Stroberg, JD Holt, A Schwenk, J Simonis - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We predict the limits of existence of atomic nuclei, the proton and neutron drip lines, from the
light through medium-mass regions. Starting from a chiral two-and three-nucleon interaction …

Converged ab initio calculations of heavy nuclei

T Miyagi, SR Stroberg, P Navrátil, K Hebeler, JD Holt - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We propose a novel storage scheme for three-nucleon (3N) interaction matrix elements
relevant for the normal-ordered two-body approximation used extensively in ab initio …

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay

JJ Gómez-Cadenas, J Martín-Albo, J Menéndez… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2023 - Springer
Neutrinos are the only particles in the Standard Model that could be Majorana fermions, that
is, completely neutral fermions that are their own antiparticles. The most sensitive known …

Nuclear shell-model simulation in digital quantum computers

A Pérez-Obiol, AM Romero, J Menéndez, A Rios… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The nuclear shell model is one of the prime many-body methods to study the structure of
atomic nuclei, but it is hampered by an exponential scaling on the basis size as the number …

Ab Initio Uncertainty Quantification of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in

A Belley, JM Yao, B Bally, J Pitcher, J Engel… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta (0 ν β β) decay would offer proof of lepton
number violation, demonstrating that neutrinos are Majorana particles, while also hel** us …