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High Energy Physics Seminar - Jnanadev Maharana (IOP Bhubaneshwar) - "The S-matrix Proposal"

Ben Lillard (University of Illinois) 20/10/20 High Energy Seminar speaker
October 28, 2019
3:30PM - 4:30PM
4138 Physics Research Building

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Add to Calendar 2019-10-28 15:30:00 2019-10-28 16:30:00 High Energy Physics Seminar - Jnanadev Maharana (IOP Bhubaneshwar) - "The S-matrix Proposal" First I shall recall the historical developments of the S-matrix theory and point out how causality and analyticity of the scattering amplitude are related. The quantum field theoretic developments will be discussed without appealing to any model. I shall also derive the upper bound on total cross section, the Froissart bound, for asymptotic energies. 4138 Physics Research Building Department of Physics physics@osu.edu America/New_York public

First I shall recall the historical developments of the S-matrix theory and point out how causality and analyticity of the scattering amplitude are related. The quantum field theoretic developments will be discussed without appealing to any model. I shall also derive the upper bound on total cross section, the Froissart bound, for asymptotic energies.