Ubirajara van Kolck

ECT* Director

Contacts

+39 0461 314760

My research interests revolve around effective field theories applied to particle, nuclear, atomic, and molecular physics. My emphasis is on the development of systematic low-energy expansions in the presence of bound states and resonances. I am particularly interested in nuclei and their similarities with cold-atom systems near unitarity. The goal of my research program is to predict the properties of light nuclei and nuclear matter from the underlying theory of strong interactions, QCD. As a benefit, I explore nuclear constraints on approximate symmetries, such as time reversal, and baryon and lepton numbers, in the search for interactions beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

Honors and Awards

Member of the Academia Europaea (2020)

Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics (2020)

Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (2019)

Langevin Prize (2015)

APS Fellow (2004)

Sloan Research Fellow (2002)

DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator (2001)

Publications

H.-W. Hammer, S. Konig, and U. van Kolck, Nuclear Effective Field Theory: Status and perspectives, Rev. Mod. Phys. 92 (2020) 025004.

V. Cirigliano, W. Dekens, J. de Vries, M.L. Graesser, E. Mereghetti, S. Pastore, and U. van Kolck, New Leading Contribution to Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 202001.

J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, U. van Kolck, and S.A. Vitiello, Ground-State Properties of Unitary Bosons: From clusters to matter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 223002.

S. Konig, H.-W. Hammer, H. Griesshammer, and U. van Kolck, Nuclear Physics around the Unitarity Limit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 202501.

J. Engel, M.J. Ramsey-Musolf, and U. van Kolck, Electric Dipole Moments of Nucleons, Nuclei, and Atoms: The Standard Model and beyond, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 71 (2013) 21.

C.A. Bertulani, H.-W. Hammer, and U. van Kolck, Effective Field Theory for Halo Nuclei, Nucl. Phys. A 712 (2002) 37.

P.F. Bedaque, H.-W. Hammer, and U. van Kolck, Renormalization of the Three-Body System with Short-Range Interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999) 463.

C. Ordonez, L. Ray, and U. van Kolck, The Two-Nucleon Potential from Chiral Lagrangians, Phys. Rev. C 53 (1996) 2086.