Simulating QCD on Lefschetz thimbles

“在Lefschetz顶针上模拟QCD”研讨会将于2017年6月28日至6月30日在欧洲核物理及相关领域理论研究中心（ECT*）举行。本次研讨会将汇集格量子色动力学（QCD）领域的研究人员，研究一种有前途的新方法来解决格上的QCD，有望减轻当前方法的不足。发展可靠的方法来计算QCD的性质是很重要的，因为QCD是强相互作用的理论，它将夸克和胶子等基本粒子束缚成质子和中子，而质子和中子是原子核的组成部分。如果成功，新方法将对布鲁克海文国家实验室相对论重离子对撞机（RHIC）的实验计划产生重大影响。 本次研讨会是一个很好的机会，为初级研究人员进一步培训和提高他们的职业生涯。为了使这成为可能，NSF的资金将为初级科学家，研究生和博士后研究员提供部分旅行支持，参加这次研讨会。这项活动的重点是在有限密度下求解格点QCD的新方法，预计将提高对相对论离子对撞机实验的理解，这些实验研究夸克-胶子等离子体性质和QCD临界点的位置。

The workshop "Simulating QCD on Lefschetz thimbles" will be held between June 28 and June 30, 2017, at the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*). This workshop will bring together researchers in the area of Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) to study a promising new approach to solving QCD on the lattice that is expected to alleviate deficiencies of current methods. Developing reliable methods of calculating the properties of QCD is important, because QCD is the theory of strong interactions that binds fundamental particles known as quarks and gluons into protons and neutrons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei. If successful, the new approach will have significant impact on the experimental program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. This workshop represents a good opportunity for junior researchers to further their training and improve their careers. To make this possible, NSF funding will provide partial travel support for junior scientists, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, to attend this workshop. The focus of this activity on new methods to solving Lattice QCD at finite density is expected to improve the understanding of experiments at relativistic ion colliders that study the quark-gluon plasma properties and the location of the QCD critical point.