In this talk I will present recent highlights in ab initio computations of nuclei using coupledâcluster theory with interactions and currents from chiral effective field theory. The topics I will discuss include: (i) accurate nuclear binding energies and radii of light and medium mass nuclei from a chiral interaction, (ii) the neutral- and weak-charge distributions and electric dipole polarizability of 48Ca, quantities that are currently targeted by precision measurements worldwide, and (iii) the microscopic origins of the quenching of the axial vector coupling gA.
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