Speaker
Description
In my talk I will highlight the background and achievements, as also some prospects, of the NEPTUN (NEutrino Properties Through Use of Nuclei) project's first year. NEPTUN is a 3-year neutrino-related nuclear-physics project funded by the EU through the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitzation. I will discuss the problem of the effective value of the weak axial-vector coupling $g_{\rm A}$ and ways to determine its value through $\beta$ spectral shapes and the nuclear muon capture. I will also address the studies of total $\beta$ spectral shapes related to quantification of natural radioactive backgrounds in rare-events and dark-matter experiments, as also the sterile neutrinos in the light of reactor antineutrino anomalies.
