Workshops General Archive

In this workshop we want to explore the prospect of the Lefschetz thimble approach to get extended to full QCD and discuss current numerical and theoretical limitations.

This workshop aims at bringing together nuclear physicists, astrophysicists, and astronomers to examine open issues and to establish strategic studies and synergies, needed to pave the way for an improved understanding of nuclear physics in the gravitational wave astronomy era.

The goal is to provide input from all sides to constrain the dense matter equation of state.

Fermi liquid theory is a cornerstone of quantum manybody systems. The mapping between strongly interacting particles and weakly coupled quasiparticles underlying this method provides an extraordinarily versatile theoretical tool.

The study of electromagnetic transitions opens a window into the very nature of the strong interaction. And, indeed, such a study of how a ground-state nucleon transitions to an excited state, over a broad range of q2, will provide keen insight into the evolution of how dynamically-generated masses emerge from the asymptotically-free, nearly massless quarks of perturbative QCD as well as provide information on the ancillary effects from the meson-baryon cloud.

Tremendous progress has been made in the past few years in predicting and measuring properties of neutron-rich systems, both theoretically and experimentally. Very exciting results, among others, concern the possibility to observe neutron resonances, the exploration of light isotopes on both sides of the neutron drip-line, the characterisation of fundamental properties of neutron-rich midmass nuclei and observations of neutron stars masses and radii.

At the conclusion of a small two-day workshop held on March 28-29, 2016 at Temple University ( https://phys.cst.temple.edu/~meziani/proton-mass-workshop-2016/) to explore the origin of the proton mass a consensus emerged from the participants and that is to follow-up this short workshop with a week-long workshop. The goal is to involve a larger community to investigate and expand on a set of findings of the first workshop where a three pronged approach to the problem of the proton mass was identified.

This workshop will focus on the many-body physics of superfluid paircorrelated fermionic systems. It will provide a forum for discussion and collaboration on the diverse microscopic approaches employed to study fermionic systems, notably Monte-Carlo techniques, Green’s function methods, correlated-basis approaches, and lattice simulations.

This workshop addresses the discussion of QCD processes for which data have recently become available at the ongoing RHIC and LHC programmes, or are expected in the near future. Whereas inclusive processes with a hard scale can be calculated within pQCD in LO and NLO, calculations of exclusive processes are relatively new.

Single-particle and collective degrees of freedom are often intimately coupled and mixed in atomic nuclei. This workshop will focus on the description of such subtle interplay and its impact on nuclear structure and reactions observables.