Nuclear matrix elements from lattice QCD for electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes

Z Davoudi, W Detmold, P Shanahan, K Orginos… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

A per-cent-level determination of the nucleon axial coupling from quantum chromodynamics

CC Chang, AN Nicholson, E Rinaldi, E Berkowitz… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The axial coupling of the nucleon, g A, is the strength of its coupling to the weak axial current
of the standard model of particle physics, in much the same way as the electric charge is the …

Lattice QCD inputs for nuclear double beta decay

V Cirigliano, W Detmold, A Nicholson… - Progress in Particle and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Second order β-decay processes with and without neutrinos in the final state are key probes
of nuclear physics and of the nature of neutrinos. Neutrinoful double-β decay is the rarest …

Heavy physics contributions to neutrinoless double beta decay from QCD

A Nicholson, E Berkowitz, H Monge-Camacho… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Observation of neutrinoless double beta decay, a lepton number violating process that has
been proposed to clarify the nature of neutrino masses, has spawned an enormous world …

On the Feynman-Hellmann theorem in quantum field theory and the calculation of matrix elements

C Bouchard, CC Chang, T Kurth, K Orginos… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The Feynman-Hellmann theorem can be derived from the long Euclidean-time limit of
correlation functions determined with functional derivatives of the partition function. Using …

from Möbius domain-wall fermions solved on gradient-flowed HISQ ensembles

N Miller, H Monge-Camacho, CC Chang, B Hörz… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We report the results of a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of FK/F π using
Möbius domain-wall fermions computed on gradient-flowed N f= 2+ 1+ 1 highly improved …

Scale setting the Möbius domain wall fermion on gradient-flowed HISQ action using the omega baryon mass and the gradient-flow scales and

N Miller, L Carpenter, E Berkowitz, CC Chang, B Hörz… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We report on a subpercent scale determination using the omega baryon mass and gradient-
flow methods. The calculations are performed on 22 ensembles of N f= 2+ 1+ 1 highly …

Smeared quasidistributions in perturbation theory

C Monahan - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Quasi-and pseudodistributions provide a new approach to determining parton distribution
functions from first principles' calculations of QCD. Here, I calculate the flavor nonsinglet …

Lattice QCD Determination of

A Walker-Loud, E Berkowitz, DA Brantley… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The nucleon axial coupling, $ g_A $, is a fundamental property of protons and neutrons,
dictating the strength with which the weak axial current of the Standard Model couples to …

An accurate calculation of the nucleon axial charge with lattice QCD

E Berkowitz, D Brantley, C Bouchard… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We report on a lattice QCD calculation of the nucleon axial charge, $ g_A $, using M\"{o}
bius Domain-Wall fermions solved on the dynamical $ N_f= 2+ 1+ 1$ HISQ ensembles after …