Applied Physics Seminar: "From hadrons to hidden assumptions"

Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will present my research studying hadronization, i.e. how subnuclear particles called quarks and gluons form strong-force bound states in quantum chromodynamics. Measurements of hadronization at the LHCb experiment at CERN over the next several years will drive ideas about how to investigate hadronization mechanisms further at the future Electron-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab, scheduled to start taking data in 2030. In the second part of my presentation, I will introduce a separate research project, Assumptions of Physics, which aims to find a set of minimal assumptions from which the known laws of physics can be rederived. Recent work using the state and measurement postulates of quantum mechanics to derive the tensor product postulate--which hence loses its status as a postulate--will be highlighted.