Speaker
Description
At the heart of particle physics lies the the Standard Model, one of the most (if not the most) successful theories of all of science, which describes the fundamental building blocks of the Universe and how they interact with each other. However, even with all the successes of this theory, mounting evidence tells us that it is at best incomplete. Nonetheless, after years of searches at particle accelerators, direct observation of any process Beyond the Standard Model still eludes us. In this talk, I will present how developments in nuclear theory can allow another, less expensive, avenue to become competitive in those searches: the high-precision measurement of low-energy processes inside the atomic nucleus. I will focus of recent developments that have allowed the rigorous quantification of uncertainty of nuclear structure properties required to interpret these searches.