CMSA Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics: QCD without diagrams

CMSA EVENTS

Speaker:

Michael Creutz - Brookhaven National Laboratory

QCD, the theory of the strong interactions, involves quarks interacting with non-Abelian gluon fields. This theory has many features that are difficult to impossible to see in conventional diagrammatic perturbation theory. This includes quark confinement, mass generation, and chiral symmetry breaking. This talk will be an elementary overview of the present framework for understanding how these effects come about.

Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126