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DE-FG02-97ER41014: THEORETICAL NUCLEAR THEORY

Award Status: Active
  • Institution: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • UEI: HD1WMN6945W6
  • DUNS: 605799469
  • Most Recent Award Date: 03/20/2025
  • Number of Support Periods: 30
  • PM: Morreale, Astrid
  • Current Budget Period: 06/01/2025 - 05/31/2026
  • Current Project Period: 06/01/2023 - 05/31/2026
  • PI: Beane, Silas
  • Supplement Budget Period: N/A
 

Public Abstract

Nuclear theory is a subject of great interest that also impacts many other disciplines, and our research is concerned with most of the important current and perceived future directions of Nuclear Physics. These include fundamental symmetries (related to learning about all the important forces that govern our universe), many-body physics (related to learning how nuclei, atoms and molecules stick together and create new forms of matter) QCD (the fundamental theory of the strong nuclear force) at both low and high energies, and the intersection of Quantum Information Science with nuclear and hadronic physics. Our studies will range in energy scale from the lowest to the highest energies, from the weakest to the strongest interactions, and from one-body physics to many-body theory. The many-body work supports experiments at FRIB. The work on high energy aspects supports jLAB12 with emphasis on aspects related to the future EIC. Particular attention is placed on advanced numerical methods (for example in many-body theory) and to supporting and suggesting new relevant experiments.  Studies of quantum entanglement in nuclei and their reactions will be an important aspect. Our studies include nuclear fission, a subject relevant to establishing the origin of elements, to future reactors, for the safety, management, and improvement of existing fuel cycles, to national security, to no-proliferation, and to nuclear forensics.

 



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