Nuclear physics from first principles: a status report

Seminar

Nuclear physics from first principles: a status report

Silas Beane

Date

Tuesday, 26 June, 2012 at 11:40

Place

Facultat de Física UB, Aula 505

I will discuss recent progress in calculating nuclear physicsinteractions and properties using lattice QCD. I will focus on anarea in which lattice QCD will soon be competitive with experiment;specifically, I will consider simple hypernuclear processes which areessential input into the nuclear equation of state relevant for adescription of dense astrophysical objects, and very recentcalculations of the spectrum of light nuclei and hypernucleiat the flavor SU(3) symmetric point.

I will discuss recent progress in calculating nuclear physicsinteractions and properties using lattice QCD. I will focus on anarea in which lattice QCD will soon be competitive with experiment;specifically, I will consider simple hypernuclear processes which areessential input into the nuclear equation of state relevant for adescription of dense astrophysical objects, and very recentcalculations of the spectrum of light nuclei and hypernucleiat the flavor SU(3) symmetric point.