Confinement is a mind-boggling property of the strong force, and it remains one of its most elusive ones. It implies that when you break an atom, you see electrons, protons and neutrons as free particles but when you break a proton its quarks and gluons permanently rearrange into new hadrons. Proving confinement is the core of one of the Millennium Prize Problems.
The strong force is just one of many types of strong forces that Nature might employ. Theoretical and experimental results call for the existence of new forces to explain Dark Matter and Dark Energy that make up 95% of the universe and, accordingly, have an immense potential for technical advances. Hadron dynamics can be used as an analogue computer to learn about the dynamics of these new strong forces so that they can be confronted with experiments.Additionally, the use of limits in theory space allows for gaining a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the strong force. String theory itself was originally introduced to describe ordinary hadrons.
This project focuses on the unexplored Corrigan and Ramond large number of colours limit that holds the key to discovering novel properties of hadron dynamics and connecting QCD and Supersymmetry.
Benjamin Jaeger, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark