Saori Pastore

TL;DR: The white paper summarizes the workshop "U.S. Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter" held at University of Maryland on March 23-25, 2017.

TL;DR: The need to introduce a leading-order short-range operator is shown, missing in all current calculations, based on renormalization arguments in both dimensional regularization with minimal subtraction and a coordinate-space cutoff scheme.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-nucleon potential and consistent electromagnetic currents are derived in chiral effective field theory at, respectively, ${Q}^{2}$ (or ${\mathrm{N}}^{2}\mathm{LO}$) and $eQ$ ( or ${\m{n}}^{3}mathmlo}$), where $Q$ generically denotes the low-momentum scale and$e$ is the electric charge.

TL;DR: In this article, two-body meson exchange current (MEC) operators are derived for magnetic moments and $M1$ transitions, and the MEC operators have been derived in both a standard nuclear physics approach and a chiral effective field theory formulation with pions and nucleons.

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview on recent theoretical ab initio calculations of electron-scattering and photonuclear reactions involving light nuclei is presented. But the authors focus on the perturbative nature of the electromagnetic probes, which allows to clearly connect measured cross sections with the calculated structure properties of nuclear targets.