Prof. William Detmold

Professor of Physics

Primary DLC

Department of Physics

MIT Room: 6-303

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics
QCD: Quantum Chromodynamics
Standard Model

Research Summary

Professor Detmold's research interests are in strong interaction dynamics in theoretical particle and nuclear physics. Detmold uses analytic methods and supercomputers to solve the complex equations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) that describe the strong interaction and seeks to understand the emergence of hadrons and nuclei from the underlying Standard Model of particle physics. He aims to determine the properties and interactions of these systems from first principles to confront experiment and to make predictions for regimes such as in the interior of neutron stars where experiments are not possible.

Recent Work