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- Includes problems and solutions
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 889)
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With ever increasing computational resources and improvements in algorithms, new opportunities are emerging for lattice gauge theory to address key questions in strongly interacting systems, such as nuclear matter.
Calculations today use dynamical gauge-field ensembles with degenerate light up/down quarks and the strange quark and it is possible now to consider including charm-quark degrees of freedom in the QCD vacuum. Pion masses and other sources of systematic error, such as finite-volume and discretization effects, are beginning to be quantified systematically. Altogether, an era of precision calculation has begun and many new observables will be calculated at the new computational facilities.
The aim of this set of lectures is to provide graduate students with a grounding in the application of lattice gauge theory methods to strongly interacting systems and in particular to nuclear physics. A wide variety of topics are covered, including continuum field theory, lattice discretizations, hadron spectroscopy and structure, many-body systems, together with more topical lectures in nuclear physics aimed a providing a broad phenomenological background. Exercises to encourage hands-on experience with parallel computing and data analysis are included.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics
Editors: Huey-Wen Lin, Harvey B. Meyer
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08022-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08021-5Published: 05 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08022-2Published: 21 November 2014
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory