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<div class="ContentPasted0">This coming Monday, December 12th at 1:00 PM (EST), Christopher Thomas will give our final (virtual) theory seminar of the Fall term.</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">Christopher's seminar will be held virtually on our usual ZoomGov link:
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https://jlab-org.zoomgov.com/j/1611179843?pwd=M09CNTFpbFVZSW1IQlhIMGp3RUVHUT09</a>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">Please see below for the title and abstract.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><u><b>Theory Seminar</b></u></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">Monday, December 12th at 1:00 PM</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><u><b>Christopher Thomas</b></u> (University of Cambridge)</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">will discuss "Hadron scattering, resonances and exotics from lattice QCD"</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><u><b>Abstract:</b></u></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">I will discuss some recent progress in studying hadrons using first-principles lattice QCD calculations. The spectroscopy and interactions of hadrons probe the strongly-interacting regime of QCD, and in recent years experiments have
observed a number of puzzling hadrons that challenge our understanding of the strong interaction. Lattice QCD provides a method for performing first-principles computations of the properties of hadrons and hence a QCD-based understanding of the phenomena.
However, the majority of hadrons are unstable -- they decay strongly and appear as resonances in hadron-hadron scattering -- and lattice calculations of these are challenging. I will summarise recent advances in this area and present some applications in the
heavy-meson sector, including calculations of $D\pi$, $DK$, and $D\bar{K}$ scattering relevant for the $D^*_0(2300)$ and the enigmatic $D^*_{s0}(2317)$.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">Have a pleasant weekend!</div>
Caroline, Colin & Patrick<br>
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