Speaker
Prof.
Zohreh Davoudi
(University of Maryland)
Description
Numerical evaluation of the quantum-mechanical correlation functions in the hypernuclear sector through the method of lattice QCD enables accessing scattering and transition amplitudes involving few nucleons and hyperons. Such studies constrain the low-energy effective interactions, and hence provide the input to ab initio many-body calculations of larger systems with phenomenological importance. Substantial progress has been achieved in lattice QCD studies of nuclei and hypernuclei in recent years, leading to the first predictions of a potentially bound H-dibaryon in nature, and the strength and nature of interactions in nucleon-hyperon channels of importance in dense matter - predictions that will be refined in upcoming years with the growth of computational resources devoted to these studies. In this talk, I report on recent results by the Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD (NPLQCD) collaboration in constraining the hypernuclear interactions, albeit with quark that are heavier than those in nature, and will comment on the prospect and impact of calculations towards the physical point.
Primary author
Prof.
Zohreh Davoudi
(University of Maryland)
