Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the Week of March 10th through March 17th, 2013
Monday, March 11th, 2013
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
- No events scheduled
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
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Friday, March 15th, 2013
- New perspectives on quark confinement
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Speaker: Philip Argyres, University of Cincinnati
- Abstract: The confinement of quarks inside protons and neutrons is thought to follow from the theory of the strong force, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). By now very convincing numerical evidence for this has been found by computer simulations of QCD, but an actual derivation of confinement using analytical techniques has resisted all attempts to date. This talk will review the concepts and problems involved in trying to explain confinement analytically, and will present some recent work that sheds light on when and how confinement arises when QCD and similar theories are given periodic boundary conditions in one spatial direction.
- Host: Hashimoto