Workshops General Archive

Nuclear physics, despite its remarkable achievements and recent advancements, is sometimes mistakenly perceived as a field of the past. In truth, it stands at the fore-front of scientific exploration, invigorated by cutting-edge developments in few- and many-body methodologies, field-theoretical frameworks, and state-of-the-art experimental techniques.

Based on a simple pattern of symmetries and their breaking, and the non-Abelian gauge field theory framework, the Standard Model with its relatively few parameters sets stringent constraints on the possible outcomes of experimental measurements from low to high energies.

Describing the interaction between nucleons and understanding how nuclei behave at the extremes of stability are two major goals of modern nuclear theory. Electroweak responses in nuclei from the low-energy to quasi-elastic regimes provide a means to address these aims.

Recent years have seen major advances in our understanding of the quark and gluon content of hadrons. Yet, achieving a fully quantitative three-dimensional picture of parton distributions within nucleons remains a critical challenge in QCD.

The synthesis of heavy elements occurs through complex reactions in unstable nuclei in exotic astrophysical environments. Understanding this requires precise knowledge of the nuclei involved, which are often experimentally inaccessible and thus need to be studied theoretically.

Nuclear and high energy physics facilities, such as CERN, Jefferson Lab, RHIC, and the forthcoming EIC, have been built around the world to study the visible universe at the fermi scale. They are already producing exabytes of data. This unprecedented amount of data holds the promise of solving many of the mysteries in QCD in the nonperturbative regime. However, extracting the required information is an extremely challenging task, as there is no available analytic solution for QCD to interpret data.

Quantum computing is a constantly evolving research field, and the rapid progress in hardware development is opening new possibilities and offering new challenges.

The Fermion Sign Problem poses a significant challenge in computational quantum many-body physics, hindering the application of Quantum Monte Carlo methods to Fermionic systems. This issue is due to the antisymmetric nature of Fermionic wavefunctions, which results in an exponential decay of the signal-to-noise ratio as system size and inverse temperature increase, leading to numerical instabilities in large-scale simulations.

The renormalization group plays a fundamental role in many areas of physics. Various aspects of perturbative and non-perturbative renormalization have been extensively investigated for decades in different physics contexts. Yet, knowledge gained in one area is often not completely appreciated by experts working on other topics.

The topic of this workshop is the “X17” particle, whose existence has been claimed in a series of recent experiments. In the workshop, the current status of the new experimental research and the new advances of the theoretical studies about this hypothetical particle will be presented and discussed.