Nuclear Theory and Applications to Astrophysics and Particle Physics

这个项目将使用核理论来探索天体物理和粒子物理中具有当代重要性的问题。影响确定中微子质量和振荡参数的实验以及探测和识别被认为构成宇宙大部分的暗物质的实验的核效应将被计算出来。将开发对在r过程核合成中起重要作用的富中子核的β衰变的精确处理，并将研究核结构物理中长期存在的关于在中子数接近82的区域中β+跃迁的极端阻碍的难题。将继续研究核系统中的夸克效应。

This project will use nuclear theory to probe issues of contemporary importance in astrophysics and particle physics. Nuclear effects that affect experiments to determine neutrino masses and oscillation parameters and experiments to detect and identify the dark matter that is believed composes most of the universe will be calculated. An accurate treatment of beta-decay from the neutron-rich nuclei that play an important role in r-process nucleosynthesis will be developed, and the long-standing puzzle of nuclear structure physics with regard to the extreme hindrance of beta-plus transitions in the region of neutron numbers near 82 will be studied. Studies of quark effects in nuclear systems will be pursued.