Nuclear matrix elements from lattice QCD for electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes
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Davoudi, Zohreh
Detmold, William
Shanahan, Phiala
Orginos, Kostas
Parreño, Assumpta
Savage, Martin J.
Wagman, Michael L.
Date Issued
March 2021
Journal
Physics Reports
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
Davoudi, Zohreh, Detmold, William, Shanahan, Phiala, Orginos, Kostas, Parreño, Assumpta et al. 2021. "Nuclear matrix elements from lattice QCD for electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes." Physics Reports, 900.
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Abstract
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Over the last decade, numerical solutions of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) using the technique of lattice QCD have developed to a point where they are beginning to connect fundamental aspects of nuclear physics to the underlying degrees of freedom of the Standard Model. In this review, the progress of lattice QCD studies of nuclear matrix elements of electroweak currents and beyond-Standard-Model operators is summarized, and connections with effective field theories and nuclear models are outlined. Lattice QCD calculations of nuclear matrix elements can provide guidance for low-energy nuclear reactions in astrophysics, dark matter direct detection experiments, and experimental searches for violations of the symmetries of the Standard Model, including searches for additional CP violation in the hadronic and leptonic sectors, baryon-number violation, and lepton-number or flavor violation. Similarly, important inputs to neutrino experiments seeking to determine the neutrino-mass hierarchy and oscillation parameters, as well as other electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes can be determined. The phenomenological implications of existing studies of electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model matrix elements in light nuclear systems are discussed, and future prospects for the field toward precision studies of these matrix elements are outlined.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2020.10.004
