Triangle Seminars
Monday, 13 May 2019
Quo Vadis: colliders?
Rohini Godbole
(Indian Institute of Science)
Abstract:
After a summary of current status of experimental results in particle physics, including the presentation of what I call the LHC paradox, I will discuss briefly how colliders were indispensible in arriving at this point of the journey. After this I would discuss what the next steps are: as to where do we go from here in the story of collider physics. If time is left, I will discuss some of the issues that the future colliders can address , by taking examples from the known unknowns, viz. in the framework of particular BSM models and also the unknown unknowns viz the model independent approach.
After a summary of current status of experimental results in particle physics, including the presentation of what I call the LHC paradox, I will discuss briefly how colliders were indispensible in arriving at this point of the journey. After this I would discuss what the next steps are: as to where do we go from here in the story of collider physics. If time is left, I will discuss some of the issues that the future colliders can address , by taking examples from the known unknowns, viz. in the framework of particular BSM models and also the unknown unknowns viz the model independent approach.
Posted by: QMW
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
TBA
Vasileios Niarchos
(Durham)
Thursday, 16 May 2019
On Integrable Subsectors of AdS/CFT and LLM geometries
Jaco van Zyl
(Witwatersrand U.)
Abstract:
The 1/2 BPS and regular LLM geometries are formed from the backreaction of a large number of D-branes on AdS_5 x S^5. The dual N=4 SYM operator to this configuration, and excitations thereof, thus lie outside of the planar limit of the theory. Explicitly the operators dual to these geometries are Schur polynomials labelled by a Young diagram with O(N^2) boxes and excitations of this configuration are restricted Schur polynomials obtained by adding boxes (and restriction labels) to this diagram. A special class of these geometries are labelled by Young diagrams with O(1) well separated corners. In the large N limit excitations localised at any one of these corners only mix with each other which is a major simplification. A recent proposal has argued that the large N dynamics of these operators is isomorphic to that of planar N=4 SYM and thus represents an integrable subsector of N=4 SYM. In this talk this proposal is reviewed and aspects of the weak and strong coupling evidence presented.
The 1/2 BPS and regular LLM geometries are formed from the backreaction of a large number of D-branes on AdS_5 x S^5. The dual N=4 SYM operator to this configuration, and excitations thereof, thus lie outside of the planar limit of the theory. Explicitly the operators dual to these geometries are Schur polynomials labelled by a Young diagram with O(N^2) boxes and excitations of this configuration are restricted Schur polynomials obtained by adding boxes (and restriction labels) to this diagram. A special class of these geometries are labelled by Young diagrams with O(1) well separated corners. In the large N limit excitations localised at any one of these corners only mix with each other which is a major simplification. A recent proposal has argued that the large N dynamics of these operators is isomorphic to that of planar N=4 SYM and thus represents an integrable subsector of N=4 SYM. In this talk this proposal is reviewed and aspects of the weak and strong coupling evidence presented.
Posted by: QMW