Lucas Platter
Department of Physics
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
phone: (614) 292-0995
fax: (614) 292-7557
Research Interests
- Effective Field Theories
- Nuclear and Atomic Few- and Many-body Physics
What I basically do
In contrast to conventional
field theories as for example quantum electrodynamics, effective field
theories (EFT) abandon the goal of describing the world with a finite set
of renormalizable interactions. Instead, EFTs use a physical system's separation
of scales, to describe its dynamics to a given accuracy with a finite set
of renormalizable and nonrenormalizable interactions. In fact, one can consider
all "old-fashioned" field theories as a special case of effective theories
in which renormalizable interactions were so far sufficient to describe experimental
results.
I use such EFTs to compute properties of nuclear and atomic few- and many-body systems.
Upcoming Workshops and Conferences:
9/27-10/3 ECT*: Bound States & Resonances in EFT
10/12-10/18 EMC: Critical Stability in Quantum Few-Body Systems