Graduate Student Seminar with Garrett King on A Random Walk Through Nuclear Electroweak Structure

Nuclei play a critical role in high-precision tests of the Standard Model and in searches for Beyond Standard Model physics. In order to disentangle new physics signals from nuclear physics effects, one must have an accurate understanding of the underlying nuclear dynamics. Using Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods in combination with chiral effective field theory interactions and consistent electroweak currents, one may systematically investigate these dynamics. In this talk, I will present studies of beta decay, muon capture, and magnetic moments in light nuclei using the Norfolk potential, a high-quality local chiral interaction, and its consistent many-body axial and vector current operators. For each observable, I will discuss the impact of different choices made when fitting the Norfolk interaction models.