NPA (Nuclear Particle Astrophysics) Seminar: Jonathan Engel, UNC, “Double-Beta Decay Matrix Elements in the Next Five Years”

US/Eastern
WLC 108

WLC 108

Description

Jon Engel

Reducing the uncertainty in the matrix elements that govern double-beta decay is one of the goals of the new DOE Topical Collaboration for Nuclear Theory in Double-Beta Decay and Fundamental Symmetries.  I discuss the collaboration’s efforts, now getting underway, to use ab initio nuclear structure theory to obtain more accurate matrix elements with real error bars. The calculations are difficult, but new many-body methods and computational resources should make them possible.

Sponsored by the Flint Fund, Wright Laboratory, Physics Department, and Yale University

Sponsored By: 

The Flint Fund

PDF icon engel_npaslides_09082016.pdf

Host: 

francesco.iachello@yale.edu

Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 1:00pm

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