Speaker
Prof.
Sonia Bacca
(Johannes Gutenberg University)
Description
The past decade has witnessed tremendous progress in theoretical and computational approaches to describing the atomic nucleus as a system of interacting protons and neutrons. In particular, ab initio calculations based on interactions and currents derived from chiral effective field theory have achieved an accurate description of key experimental quantities. In this talk, I will focus on selected electroweak observables in light nuclei and show that the level of accuracy now reached opens the possibility of using nuclear theory to address open questions in other areas of physics, such as neutrino physics.
Author
Prof.
Sonia Bacca
(Johannes Gutenberg University)