THE SEMINAR

THEORY OF DUALITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS



On the 28th of May 2015, at 10:15 a.m.

Paweł Duch (Wydział Fizyki, Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej, Uniwersytet Jagielloński)

will give a talk on

"The construction of scattering states for massless particles in quantum field theory"

Abstract
Almost all experiments in the high energy physics involve collisions of particles. The description of such processes in quantum field theory models requires the identification of scattering states i.e. states which in the asymptotic past or future correspond to a specific configurations of particles. During the talk I will present the construction of scattering states of massless particles and prove that the Hilbert space formed by these states has Fock structure. Despite the long range correlation inevitable in the presence of massless particles the construction turns out to be simpler than the analogous construction for massive particles.

The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 in the room 2.23 of the main building of the Faculty of Physics (the 2nd floor), Pasteur Str. 5, Warszawa.
Additional information can be found on the webpage http://oldwww.fuw.edu.pl/KMMF/sem.czw.przedp.html.