Ab initio study of $\beta$-decay and pairing in $N=Z$ nuclei

Subhrajit Sahoo, Praveen C. Srivastava

We investigate the $\beta$-decay properties of $rp$-process waiting-point nuclei ${}^{72}$Kr, ${}^{68}$Se, and ${}^{64}$Ge from realistic nuclear forces based on chiral effective field theor…