Author: sylvia

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  The r-Process: A Complete Survey and the Impact of Ab Initio Masses

  Please contact divya.singh@berkeley.edu, tianqi.zhao@berkeley.edu, or klund@berkeley.edu for zoom links. The rapid neutron-capture (r-) process is responsible for producing approximately half of the elements heavier than iron in the Universe. However, […]

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  Parity and Baryogenesis in Theories Beyond Standard Cosmology

  Please contact divya.singh@berkeley.edu, tianqi.zhao@berkeley.edu, or klund@berkeley.edu for zoom links. Motivated by open questions such as the matter-antimatter asymmetry, the dark sector, and a quantum theory of gravity, I will talk […]

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  The Effective Theory of Muon-to-Electron Conversion

  We summarize recent work to develop an effective theory of muon-to-electron conversion, based on a complete set of low-energy effective operators that are developed from a systematic expansion in velocities […]

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  Whispers of the Stars: The Tale of ²³Na and Elusive Axions

  In the crushing heat and density of stellar interiors, ordinary matter behaves in extraordinary ways, and, if some bold ideas in theoretical physics are correct, stars may also be producing entirely new kinds of particles: axions and axion-like particles, or ALPs.

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  The correlation of neutron star radii and the evidence of strong phase transitions in neutron stars

  One of the biggest issues in the study of Bayesian inference of neutron star (NS) equations of state (EoSs) is the choice of Bayesian priors. Given today’s measurement accuracy of […]