Speaker
Jonathan Engel
(University of North Carolina)
Description
At present, calculated nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay carry a theoretical uncertainty that is hard to quantify but is at least a factor of two or three. That level of uncertainty makes planning and interpreting experiments difficult. Recent progress in nuclear theory and the organization of the theory community, however, should allow more accurate calculations with better estimated errors in the next few years. I describe new methods and the collaborative effort to apply them to double-beta decay.
Author
Jonathan Engel
(University of North Carolina)
