FRIB-TA Science Highlights

On this page are links to one-slide summaries of FRIB-TA-supported research accomplishments. All are in pdf format.

Bridge Faculty/Staff Highlights

• A Bayesian mixture model approach to quantifying the empirical nuclear saturation point
     [contact: Christian Drischler, drischler at ohio.edu]
• From chiral EFT to perturbative QCD: a Bayesian Model mixing approach to symmetric nuclear matter
     [contact: Christian Drischler, drischler at ohio.edu]
• Efficient emulators for two-body scattering observables using eigenvector continuation
     [contact: Christian Drischler, drischler at ohio.edu]
• Efficient field theory for dilute Fermi systems at fourth order
     [contact: Christian Drischler, drischler at ohio.edu]
• Large and massive neutron stars: Implications for the sound speed within QCD of dense matter
     [contact: Christian Drischler, drischler at ohio.edu]
• Eigenvector continuation for emulating and extrapolating two-body resonances
     [contact: Kévin Fossez, kfossez at fsu.edu]
• Quantifying alpha clustering in light nuclei from binding energies
     [contact: Kévin Fossez, kfossez at fsu.edu]
• Charged-Particle Bound States in Periodic Boxes
     [contact: Sebastian Koenig, skoenig at ncsu.edu]

Theory Fellow Highlights

• Ab initio beta decay calculations for Beyond the Standard Model Physics Studies
     [contact: Grigor Sargsyan, sargsyan at frib.msu.edu]
• Dispersive formalism for the nuclear structure correction to beta decay
     [contact: Chien-Yeah Seng, seng at frib.msu.edu]
• Projection-based emulators for quantum continuum states: type-II with complex energies
     [contact: Xilin Zhang, zhang at frib.msu.edu]
• Protection-based emulators for quantum continuum states: type-I with real energies
     [contact: Xilin Zhang, zhang at frib.msu.edu]

Past Bridge Faculty/Staff Highlights

• Benchmark calculations of pure neutron matter with realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions
     [contact: Maria Piarulli, mpiarulli at physics.wustl.edu]
• Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of 0νββ decay matrix elements
     [contact: Saori Pastore, saori at wustl.edu]

Past Theory Fellow Highlights

• Quantifying alpha clustering in light nuclei from binding energies
     [contact: Kévin Fossez, kfossez at fsu.edu]
• Nuclear and neutron-star matter from local chiral interactions
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]
• Ab-initio short-range-correlation scaling factors in nuclei up to A=40
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]
• (e,e’p) study of momentum distribution ratios in A=3 nuclei
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]
• Using (d,pγ) reactions as a surrogate for neutron capture
     [contact: Gregory Potel, potelaguilar1 at llnl.gov]
• Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei with local chiral interactions
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]
• Nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]
• Exploring new small system geometries in heavy ion collisions
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]
• Many-Body Factorization & Position-Momentum Equivalence of SRC
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]
• Spin Susceptibility in Neutron Matter from QMC Calculations
     [contact: Diego Lonardoni, lonardoni at lanl.gov]