Speaker Institution: University of Washington, Institute for Nuclear Theory
Title: Nuclear Physics for Beyond-the-Standard-Model Searches
Abstract: Precision measurements of low-energy observables can provide constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model that are complementary to direct searches at the energy frontier, often extending the sensitivity to scales not directly accessible at high-energy colliders. However, in order to unambiguously establish anomalies that signal departures from the Standard Model or at least extract limits on the New-Physics parameter space, calculations of the relevant low-energy nuclear physics with controlled uncertainties, in terms of hadronic corrections or nuclear matrix elements, are becoming increasingly important. In the talk, this interplay between nuclear and particle physics will be discussed in the context of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, direct-detection searches for dark matter, and lepton flavor violation.