Duff Neill (Los Alamos National Laboratory)--Introduction to Soft Collinear Effective Field Theory

Duff Neill (Los Alamos National Laboratory) gives us an Introduction to Soft Collinear Effective Field Theory (SCET)

Abstract:
Soft Collinear Effective Field Theory has been used to push scattering calculations at high energies to the highest levels of precision possible. I will give an introduction to the specifics of this effective theory of QCD, building on the framework introduced in the last lecture: its degrees of freedom, symmetries, and its power counting. I will analyze its application to the factorization of the most primitive scattering amplitude possible, the Sudakov form factor for a colorless decay to two jets. Time permitting, I will give a brief description of the current research directions in the field.

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Bio:
Duff Neill received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. Duff was then a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT until 2016 working on the physics of high-energy jets at the LHC. Duff then went to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a Feynman Fellow, working in the T2 group in Theory Division. Since 2020, Duff has been a permanent Staff member at LANL.