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The QCD Sphaleron Rate: A First-Principles Determination from Inverse-Problem Techniques

2 Dec 2025, 11:40
40m
Aula Renzo Leonardi (ECT*)

Aula Renzo Leonardi

ECT*

Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)

Speaker

Roberto Dionisio (Università di Pisa / INFN sez. di Pisa)

Description

The sphaleron rate is a key phenomenological quantity, relevant both for axion thermal production in the early Universe and for transport phenomena such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect.

I will begin by outlining the numerical strategy used to extract the sphaleron rate from lattice correlators, employing a regularized Backus–Gilbert reconstruction.

Then, I will present early results for the sphaleron rate at non-zero spatial momentum in pure-gauge theory, obtained from correlators double-extrapolated to the continuum and to zero smoothing radius.

Authors

Alessandra Valentino (Università di Pisa) Dr Andrea Giorgieri (Università di Pisa) Dr Claudio Bonanno (IFT UAM/CSIC Madrid) Dr Francesco Sanfilippo (INFN, Sezione di Roma Tre) Dr Giuseppe Gagliardi (Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università “Roma Tre”) Prof. Massimo D'Elia (Università di Pisa) Roberto Dionisio (Università di Pisa / INFN sez. di Pisa)

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