25–26 Mar 2026
Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Recent progress in three-hadron finite-volume scattering formalism and its applications

25 Mar 2026, 13:35
35m
65/1175 (Avenue Campus, University of Southampton)

65/1175

Avenue Campus, University of Southampton

Southampton, UK Building 65

Speaker

Max Hansen (Edinburgh)

Description

I will review recent advances in the direct study of three-hadron interactions from lattice QCD. Building on the pioneering work of Lüscher, many lattice QCD calculations to date have employed mathematical relations connecting finite-volume energies and matrix elements to physical scattering and decay amplitudes. While applications to two-hadron channels are well established, those to three- or more hadron states are still being developed. In addition to outlining the key formalism, I will highlight recent theoretical developments (e.g. for DDπ and Nππ amplitudes) and applications (e.g. rho-to-pi-pi-pi scattering with a rigorously resonant rho). I will also discuss future prospects and open challenges.

Author

Max Hansen (Edinburgh)

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