Theory Colloquia

Lattice QCD: a theoretical femtoscope for non-perturbative strong dynamics

Name: Lattice QCD: a theoretical femtoscope for non-perturbative strong dynamics
Start: 2012-02-22T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-02-22T15:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Leonardo Giusti (Univ. degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (IT))

Wednesday 22 Feb 2012, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Description

Lattice QCD is the theoretical framework where the dynamics of strongly interacting particles can be investigated from first principles. After an introduction to the subject and to recent selected results, I will focus on a new proposal for determining thermodynamic potentials from the response of a thermal field theory to a twist in the boundary conditions. By-products of the derivation, such as a recursion relation among the cumulants of the momentum distribution and formulae for finite-volume corrections to several well-known thermodynamic identities, will also be discussed.