Conveners
Menu-2019 Plenary: Session 8
- Colin Morningstar (Carnegie Mellon University)
Lattice QCD calculations of resonant meson-meson scattering amplitudes have improved significantly due to algorithmic and computational advances. However, progress in meson-nucleon scattering has been slower due to difficulties in computing the necessary correlation functions, the exponential signal-to-noise problem, and the finite-volume treatment of scattering with fermions. Nonetheless,...
The Fermilab E906/SeaQuest is an experiment aimed at studying the anti-quark distributions in nucleons and nuclei. The experiment uses a 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Main Injector at Fermilab to collide with various solid and cryogenic targets to study a variety of physics topics ranging from light quark flavor asymmetry to the EMC effect in the nucleon sea. It takes advantage of the...
I will discuss recent work applying lattice QCD to the study of the interactions of light nuclei from lattice QCD. Calculations of nuclear matrix elements relevant for Standard Model processes such as proton-proton fusion, and neutrinoful double beta decay will be overviewed. The potential for lattice QCD input into new physics searches will also be highlighted with emphasis on calculations...
