Speaker
David Kaplan
Description
Spin-flavor symmetries in hadronic physics have been thought to follow from large-N. However, lattice data suggests an SU(16) spin-flavor symmetry for baryons in the SU(3) limit that does not have a large-N explanation. We discuss how the enhanced symmetry corresponds to suppressed entanglement in scattering processes, and conjecture that the strong interactions may be dynamically suppressing entanglement. One can imagine additional lattice tests of this hypothesis, and other places unexpected symmetries might arise.
Authors
David Kaplan
Martin Savage
(Institute for Nuclear Theory)
Ms
Natalie Klco
(University of Washington)
Prof.
Silas Beane
(University of Washington)
