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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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Lattice QCD: A Brief Introduction
Pages 1-34
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Lattice Methods for Hadron Spectroscopy
Pages 35-67
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Hadron Structure on the Lattice
Pages 69-105
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Chiral Perturbation Theory
Pages 107-152
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Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD
Pages 153-194
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics
- Editors
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- Huey-Wen Lin
- Harvey B. Meyer
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Physics
- Series Volume
- 889
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-08022-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-08022-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-08021-5
- Series ISSN
- 0075-8450
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 244
- Number of Illustrations
- 19 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
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