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07.05.2025   at 14:00 - 15:00

QTC Journal Club: Gradient flow as a renormalization tool

Speaker: Antonio Rago, Associate Professor at IMADA, SDU, and part of the QTC. His talk will focus on the Gradient Flow, which represents an important renormalization scheme with noteworthy developments in lattice field theory. More information is reported below.

Abstract: The Gradient Flow is a smoothing technique that has been studied for its properties in the field of renormalization. In combination with the short flow-time expansion, it provides a renormalization scheme in which hadronic matrix elements on the lattice evolve along the flow time, gradually removing UV divergences. In this renormalization scheme, some of lattice challenges—such as mixing with operators of lower mass dimension—are either avoided or shifted to the perturbative matching part of the procedure.

I will first introduce the Gradient Flow methodology and provide some insight to the small flow-time expansion. I will then present our approach for determining matrix elements of four-quark operators that describe neutral meson mixing and meson lifetimes. While meson mixing calculations are well-established on the lattice and serve as a validation of our procedure, a lattice determination of matrix elements for heavy meson lifetimes remains an open challenge. Preliminary results for mesons composed of a charm and strange quark are presented, along with prospects for extending the determination to B mesons. 

Location: The DIAS Meetingroom Syd (V22-503a-2)
You can also join via Zoom (passcode: 060379).

The event is open to all.