"Excited meson spectroscopy and scattering from lattice QCD"

by Dr Thomas Christopher (Trinity College Dublin)

Tuesday 16 Oct 2012, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Berlin

Seminar room 3268 (TUM - Physik Deparment)

I report on recent progress in using lattice QCD to study excited mesons and scattering. Emphasising results and phenomenology, I will discuss calculations of excited light mesons and charmonia where we have extracted extensive spectra, including states with exotic quantum numbers and non-exotic hybrids, with high statistical precision. The interesting phenomenology suggested by the results will be highlighted. I will also describe work on mapping out energy-dependent scattering phase shifts including some preliminary results for the rho resonance.