by
Prof.Sonia Bacca(Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
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Europe/Rome
2G26 (Dipartimento di Fisica)
2G26
Dipartimento di Fisica
Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Edificio 6, via Cintia
Description
Atomic nuclei constitute the heart of matter. They drive the synthesis
of the chemical elements, serve as star fuel and as laboratories to test
fundamental interactions and the Standard Model. Predictions of nuclear
properties that start from forces among nucleons and their interactions
with external probes as described by chiral effective field theory are
arguably the doorway to a solid connection between observations and the
underlying fundamental theory of quantum chromo-dynamics.
Today, thanks to advances in many-body theory and high performance
computing, we can calculate nuclear structure and reactions in a unified
way for increasingly large systems and estimate theoretical
uncertainties. Recent highlights will be presented, that portrait the
role of ab-initio calculations to tackle contemporary issues, such as
the investigation of neutron-rich nuclei and the proton-radius puzzle.
