PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Modern-Day Nuclear Physics" - Dr. Raúl Briceño (Asst. Prof., U.C. Berkeley)

Modern-day nuclear physics

My research focuses on understanding the implications of the Standard Model of particle physics in the formation of the basic building blocks of nature. This model describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature. The opaquest of these is the strong nuclear force which is responsible for the formation of all atomic nuclei. We know that this force is fundamentally described in terms of the theory of quarks and gluons, which is known as quantum chromodynamics (QCD). My research focuses on the development and implementation of novel mathematical and computational techniques to study the emergence of nuclear phenomena directly from QCD. In this talk, I review some of the key ideas driving the field of nuclear physics.