TY - JOUR
T1 - Lepton- and baryon-number violation in nuclear effective field theory
AU - Van Kolck, U.
N1 - Funding Information: I thank Luigi Coraggio, Angela Gargano, and Nunzio Itaco for providing the most stimulating environment for physics discussions. I am grateful to my many collaborators for sharing their insights into the research reported here, and particularly to Wouter Dekens, Jordy de Vries, Emanuele Mereghetti, and Femke Oosterhof for driving these efforts. This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under award DE-FG02-04ER41338. Publisher Copyright: © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Lepton and baryon numbers are accidental symmetries in the effective field theory (EFT) of the Standard Model. Their violation would lead to spectacular nuclear decays which can be described with nuclear EFTs. I discuss ways in which two such decays - the neutrinoless double-beta decay of heavy nuclei and the disappearance of the deuteron - provide complementary information to processes that take place outside the nuclear environment - neutrino masses, nucleon decay, and neutron-antineutron oscillations.
AB - Lepton and baryon numbers are accidental symmetries in the effective field theory (EFT) of the Standard Model. Their violation would lead to spectacular nuclear decays which can be described with nuclear EFTs. I discuss ways in which two such decays - the neutrinoless double-beta decay of heavy nuclei and the disappearance of the deuteron - provide complementary information to processes that take place outside the nuclear environment - neutrino masses, nucleon decay, and neutron-antineutron oscillations.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/2453/1/012014
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/2453/1/012014
M3 - Conference article
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 2453
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012014
T2 - 13th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics: Perspectives and Challenges in Nuclear Structure after 70 Years of Shell Model, ISS 2022
Y2 - 15 May 2022 through 20 May 2022
ER -