nLab Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2023

Talks

Context

Quantum Field Theory

algebraic quantum field theory (perturbative, on curved spacetimes, homotopical)

Introduction

Concepts

field theory:

Lagrangian field theory

quantization

quantum mechanical system, quantum probability

free field quantization

gauge theories

interacting field quantization

renormalization

Theorems

States and observables

Operator algebra

Local QFT

Perturbative QFT

Fields and quanta

fields and particles in particle physics

and in the standard model of particle physics:

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)

flavors of fundamental fermions in the
standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions1st generation2nd generation3d generation
quarks (qq)
up-typeup quark (uu)charm quark (cc)top quark (tt)
down-typedown quark (dd)strange quark (ss)bottom quark (bb)
leptons
chargedelectronmuontauon
neutralelectron neutrinomuon neutrinotau neutrino
bound states:
mesonslight mesons:
pion (udu d)
ρ-meson (udu d)
ω-meson (udu d)
f1-meson
a1-meson
strange-mesons:
ϕ-meson (ss¯s \bar s),
kaon, K*-meson (usu s, dsd s)
eta-meson (uu+dd+ssu u + d d + s s)

charmed heavy mesons:
D-meson (uc u c, dcd c, scs c)
J/ψ-meson (cc¯c \bar c)
bottom heavy mesons:
B-meson (qbq b)
ϒ-meson (bb¯b \bar b)
baryonsnucleons:
proton (uud)(u u d)
neutron (udd)(u d d)

(also: antiparticles)

effective particles

hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)

solitons

in grand unified theory

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

sfermions:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

This page compiles pointers related to the event:

on confinement.

Contents

Talks

10 July 2022

  • Nathan Seiberg, The Power of Symmetry (video)

  • Michael Teper, Lattice Gauge Theory and Confinement - an Introduction (part I: video)

  • Mithat Unsal?, Adiabatic Continuity, Compactification, and Confinement (video)

  • David Gross, Fifty Years of Quantum Chromodynamics (The Theory of The Strong Nuclear Force) (video)

11 July 2022

12 July 2022

  • Mithat Unsal?, Adiabatic Continuity, Compactification, and Confinement III (video)

  • Phiala Shanahan, Lattice Field Theories with Fermions — Part 2 (video)

  • Michael Teper, Lattice Gauge Theory and Confinement - an Introduction III (video)

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