Institutsseminar Kern- und Hadronenphysik

Jan. 25, 2010 at 5 p.m. c.t. in HS Kernphysik, Becherweg 45

Prof. Dr. Michael Ostrick
Institut für Kernphysik
ostrick@kph.uni-mainz.de

Chiral symmetry versus the lattice
Michael Creutz (Brookhaven)


Chiral symmetry and lattice gauge theory are the two primary tools for understanding non-perturbative effects in quantum field theory. However there is a clash between these approaches connected with quantum mechanical anomalies. Because of this we presently have no theoretically clean non-perturbative formulation for the standard model. I review this unsolved problem and some speculations for overcoming it.