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This Week's Speaker: Aditi Chandra
Bootstrapping Quantum Chromodynamics at Low-Energies
Aditi Chandra
Department of Physics
How much of what we see in the physical world is explained simply by consistency with quantum mechanics and special relativity? The bootstrap program is a recently revived effort to answer this question by carving out the space of allowed theories compatible with such basic physical principles. In this talk, we'll explore the bootstrap for quantum chromodynamics at low energies, the theory of the strong force. At low energies, the strong interactions are best described in terms of bound states of quarks and gluons - such as mesons - but this low energy theory cannot be derived from QCD perturbatively. Might the bootstrap help? In the talk, we'll explain how the bootstrap works, provide an introduction to QCD, and highlight what the bootstrap can teach us about the strong force.
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