The 34th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2016)

Session

Public Lecture

Jul 25, 2016, 7:00 PM

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

411. From the Origins of Mass to the Stability of Matter: Lattice QCD and Supercomputers

Dr Laurent Lellouch (CNRS & Aix-Marseille U.)

7/25/16, 7:00 PM

Plenary Session

Talk

The origin of mass is mysterious. In our everyday experience, the mass of an object is the sum of the mass of its parts. However, in the world of subatomic particles such as quarks and gluons, this everyday assumption is no longer true and even very small mass differences can have cosmic consequences. After an introduction to the subatomic world and the mechanisms by which mass emerges, I...