14–19 Jun 2010
Villasimius, Sardinia
Europe/Rome timezone

Extracting Scattering Parameters using the Isospin Chemical Potential

18 Jun 2010, 17:00
20m
Room1 (Villasimius, Sardinia)

Room1

Villasimius, Sardinia

Tanka Village
Hadronic structure and interactions Parallel 50: Hadronic structure and interactions

Speaker

Michael Buchoff (University of Maryland, College Park)

Description

Hadronic scattering mediated through the strong interaction has been an area of great interest for both theory and experiment. Recently, lattice QCD calculations of scattering processes from first principles have seen remarkable progress, including multiple calculations of two-pion scattering lengths that agree with experiment to within a few percent. However, there exists a certain class of scattering processes, such as pion-nucleon scattering, that contain annihilation diagrams, which are prohibitively expensive to simulate on the lattice. In this talk, I will present a method to extract certain parameters from this class of scattering processes by employing an isospin chemical potential, which can be simulated on the lattice as a result of its positive-definite fermion determinant.
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Primary author

Michael Buchoff (University of Maryland, College Park)

Presentation materials