Speaker
William Detmold
(MIT)
Description
Fundamentally, nuclear physics arises from the Standard Model. The calculation of key nuclear physics quantities from this underlying theory is extremely challenging because of the multiple scales of physics that are involved and the severe computational complexity. The availability of petascale (and the prospect of exascale) high performance computing is changing this situation by enabling the extension of the numerical techniques of lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD), applied successfully in particle physics, to the more intricate dynamics of light nuclei. In this talk, I will discuss this new frontier and the emerging understanding of hadrons and nuclei directly from the Standard Model. In particular, I will discuss recent LQCD calculations of their electroweak interactions and structure and prospects for calculations of nuclear modification of parton distributions.
Primary author
William Detmold
(MIT)
