Nuclear Theory and Applications to Astrophysics and Particle Physics

该项目将使用核理论来探讨 在天体物理学和粒子物理学中的当代重要性。 影响中微子实验的核效应 质量和振荡参数和实验来检测 并确定暗物质的组成 宇宙将被计算。 准确治疗 富中子核的β衰变， 在r-过程核合成中的作用将得到发展， 核结构物理学的长期困惑， 到极端的阻碍β +过渡在 将研究中子数接近82的区域。 研究 将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.