6th Workshop on Future Directions in Spectroscopy Analysis (FDSA2025)

Europe/Madrid
DAM 7.24 Room (Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona)

DAM 7.24 Room

Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona

Carrer Martí i Franquès, 1 08028 - Barcelona, Spain
Vincent Mathieu (UB)
Description

It is an exciting time for hadron spectroscopy. An extensive collection of new states have been observed in modern experiments, ranging from the light sector up to heavy quarkonia. When combined with the unprecedented amount of events collected, these results enable us to access a new plethora of phenomena. The large dataset measured at COMPASS allows for very refined analyses. Even more, data is to come in the years ahead from CLAS12 and GlueX at Jefferson Lab. The identification of states predicted by QCD, in which gluons play a major constituent role is the goal of the JLab experiments. This goal is shared by the lattice QCD effort, which has produced sound results involving non-ordinary hadrons. 

An understanding of the dynamics that confines constituents are paramount to conceive the formation of the many unstable hadrons we observe. The extraction and identification of these short-lived states require elaborated analysis tools. Furthermore, both the future XYZ spectroscopy program at EIC and the possible 24 GeV JLab upgrade push for a better understanding of the amplitude analysis tools that will be required. At this workshop, recent progress on spectroscopy, involving non-ordinary hadrons in particular will be reviewed. The workshop aims at gathering experiment, phenomenology, and lattice QCD together to discuss the key points and future directions involving modern hadron spectroscopy, and will be centered on the JPAC activities within the ExoHad Collaboration.

This workshop is intended to be interactive, with ample time for discussions. We would like to encourage all participants to contribute their ideas to the various topics that will be presented.

 

Local Organising Committee (ICCUB)

  • Vincent Mathieu 
  • Gloria Montaña
  • Sergi Gonzàlez-Solis
  • Nadine Hammoud

 

  • Anna Argudo (administrative staff)
  • Esther Pallarés (administrative staff)

                                       

                                     

 

 

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    • COMPASS/GlueX: Double Regge
      • 1
        Welcome

        Welcome

        Speaker: Vincent Mathieu (UB)
      • 2
        Double-regge amplitudes

        We will review the theory behind Double-Regge amplitudes that describe the high energy regime of diffractive eta-pi production.

        Speakers: Adam Szczepaniak (IU/JLab), César Fernández Ramírez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED))
      • 3
        Pseudoscalar meson-pair production beyond the resonance region at COMPASS

        The COMPASS experiment at CERN's SPS provides a very large data set to study the
        light-meson spectrum in diffractive production reactions of 190$\,$GeV$/\text{c}$ beam pions with protons. Among the many different final states accessible, $\eta\pi^-$ and $\eta^{\prime}\pi^-$ are clean channels to investigate the lightest hybrid-meson candidate, the $\pi_1(1600)$. One challenge in the extraction of resonance parameters, like pole positions, is the separation of resonant and non-resonant processes.

        To better constrain the non-resonant production mechanism of these final states, we analyze the high-mass region, i.e. $4\,\text{GeV}/\text{c}^2

        Speaker: Henri Pekeler
      • 4
        A double-Regge exchange model for high-energy $\eta^{(\prime)}\pi$ photoproduction

        The study of $\eta^{(\prime)}\pi$ photoproduction is particularly interesting for the search for the lowest lying hybrid meson with exotic quantum numbers, the $\pi_1(1600)$, at the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab. In this talk, I will present a model based on double-Regge exchange of vector trajectories $\eta^{(\prime)}\pi$ photoproduction at high energies. The model successfully describes CLAS data at large $\eta\pi$ invariant mass and predicts a sizable forward-backward angular asymmetry at GlueX energies, larger in $\eta'\pi$ than in $\eta\pi$, indicating the presence of strong exotic partial waves in the resonance region, particularly in the $\eta'\pi$ channel.

        Speaker: Gloria Montana (Universitat de Barcelona & ICCUB)
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
    • GlueX/CLAS: Moments
      • 5
        Moments of Angular Distribution of the K+K- System with CLAS12

        Since the prediction of the meson in 1935, facilities and institutions across the world have contributed to the discovery of over 200 distinct types, some of those being the well-known pions, kaons and J/Ψ. Understanding the properties of the mesons, including their spin, lifetime and mass, allows for the classification of this vast family of hadrons to be improved. This is particularly important in the case of the discovery of new or exotic mesons. In this endeavour, determining the spin is vitally important. A set of quantities known as moments of angular distributions relate the spin of a meson to the angular distributions of its decay products; furthermore, these quantities can be extracted unambiguously and directly from experimental data. The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, also known as Jefferson Lab, located in Virginia, is home to the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), which is capable of producing a high-luminosity 12 GeV electron beam. When this beam impinges on a supercooled liquid hydrogen target, electron-proton interactions result in the production of various mesons, which are then detected by the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer at 12 GeV (CLAS12). The purpose of this research is to use CLAS12 at Jefferson Lab to obtain the moments of angular distributions of mesons that decay into pairs of oppositely charged kaons.

        Speaker: Charlie Velasquez (University of York)
      • 6
        2Pi0 Moment and Partial Wave Analysis

        Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong force and gives rise to a spectrum of hadrons. Hadrons such as qq̅ and qqq states have been observed but others, such as the gg (glueball) or the qq̅g (hybrid) state are not forbidden. A gg pair can share the same quantum numbers as a qq̅ meson, resulting in the ‘mixing’ of their respective states; the observed physical particle is a superposition of pure glueball and pure meson states.
        The π⁰ π⁰ channel provides a window into these states, and others, due to a high level of statistics and quantum number restraints ensuring the even spin number of the intermediate particle. Through this channel an analysis sensitive to quantum number of the lowest lying glueball at JPC = 0(++) and possible ‘mixed’ JPC = 2(++) state become possible, as well as an analysis of other states which require clearer branching fractions and differential cross sections to compare with theoretical predictions.
        Using data obtained as part of the GlueX collaboration at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, alongside sPlot analysis techniques, encouraging preliminary moment and partial wave analysis results have been obtained using a combination of parametric and non-parametric moment models. Future work will study the systematics of different fit methods in detail.

        Speaker: Alexandra Berger (University of Glasgow)
      • 7
        Angular analysis of $2\pi$ and $3\pi$ systems recoiling against $\Delta^{++}$ at GlueX

        The GlueX experiment in Hall D at Jefferson Lab is designed for studies of light meson spectroscopy with a focus on searches for hybrid mesons that have exotic quantum numbers and therefore cannot be classified among conventional hadrons. The experimental facility exploits a tagged photon beam with energies from 3 GeV to 12 GeV incident on a liquid hydrogen fixed target. A significant part of the GlueX physics program is dedicated to comprehensive studies of the $t$-channel exchange mechanism between baryonic and mesonic systems, which is made possible by operating with a linearly polarized photon beam in the energy range from 8.2 GeV to 8.8 GeV. The photoproduction mechanisms are probed by measurements of Spin Density Matrix Elements (SDMEs). Furthermore, advanced searches for spin-exotic mesons are performed through the application of Partial Wave Analysis (PWA) techniques.

        In this talk, I present two ongoing physics analyses of the data collected in 2017-2018. First physics analysis is aimed at measurement of the SDMEs in the $\gamma\,p\to \Delta^{++}(\to p\pi^{+})\rho^{-}(\to \pi^{-}\pi^{0})$ reaction. A fit model is constructed for a simultaneous fit of angular distributions in both baryonic and mesonic systems. Second physics analysis is aimed at the PWA of a $\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\pi^{-}$ system produced in the $\gamma\,p\to \pi^{+}\pi^{-}\pi^{-}\Delta^{++}(\to p\pi^{+})$ reaction. In the approximation of an Isobar decay, data with the selected three-pion final states will be fitted as a superposition of partial waves contributing to the total intensity. The PWA techniques will be applied to angle fits in certain bins of $m_{3\pi}$ and $-t$. Particular interest lies in establishing of a resonant spin-exotic $1^{-+}$ contribution coming from the $P$-wave $\rho\,\pi^{-}$ configuration.

        Speaker: Ilia Belov
    • 13:00
      Lunch break
    • CLAS / EIC
      • 8
        Meson Spectroscopy with Electron Scattering

        Experiments at CLAS12 and the Electron Ion Collider facilitate production of meson resonances dominantly through low Q2 virtual photoproduction (or quasi-real photoproduction). This provides an effectively elliptically polarised photon beam which provides stringent constraints on the underlying partial wave amplitudes. We will consider the prospects for analysing exotic mesons at the EIC with such a process. We will review the tools available for such studies and discuss what is required to develop a rigorous spectroscopy programme at the EIC.

        Speaker: Derek Glazier (University of Glasgow)
      • 9
        Generalising Moments Analysis for Electroproduction

        The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is a proposed future collider in which the next generation of hadron spectroscopy experiments are set to take place. During electroproduction, resonances are produced through the exchange of a virtual photon, which gives greater detail on different production mechanisms compared to that of a real photon. The EIC will also have access to polarised electron and proton beams, providing the opportunity to investigate the physics of resonances by using the polarisation information to access otherwise inaccessible observables, such as cross-sections. To accommodate this, we will have to update the current electroproduction formalism to include a generalised moments analysis. In this presentation, first I will review the current electroproduction formalism and the moments analysis for photoproduction, then the derivation of this new generalisation for electroproduction, finally I shall provide an outline of the future of this project.

        Speaker: Dillon Leahy (University of Glasgow)
      • 10
        The KLong Facility in Hall D at Jefferson Lab

        The KLong Experiment in Jefferson Lab Hall D will use a secondary beam of neutral kaons and the GlueX experimental setup to perform strange hadron spectroscopy. By achieving a flux on the order of $1×10^{4}$ $K_{L}$/sec, KLF will allow a broad range of measurements that improve the statistics of previous world data by several orders of magnitude.

        The experiment will measure both differential cross sections and self-analysed polarisations of the produced $\Lambda$, $\Sigma$, $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ hyperons spanning the mass range W = 1490 MeV to 2500 MeV. KLF data will significantly constrain partial wave analyses and reduce model-dependent uncertainties in the extraction of the properties and pole positions of the strange hyperon resonances, as well as establish the orbitally excited multiplets in the spectra of the $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ hyperons. The proposed facility will also explore the strange meson sector through measurements of the final state $K\pi$ system up to 2 GeV invariant mass, and with the addition of nuclear emulsion detectors for high-resolution tracking, contribute to studies of hypernuclei.

        This talk will give an overview of the KLong Facility design, current status, and prospects for its impact in strangeness spectroscopy.

        Speaker: Stuart Fegan (University of York)
    • 16:00
      Coffee break
    • CLAS / EIC
      • 11
        Measurement of exclusive J/$\psi$ photoproduction with the CLAS12 experiment: unpolarized cross section and perspectives for polarization observables

        The photo-production of vector mesons off the nucleon has long been established as an important tool to access the gluon content of the nucleon. In particular, the photo-production of J/$\psi$ near the threshold energy has been related to the Gluons Gravitational Form Factors of the nucleon. However, the validity of this interpretation must be tested and additional contributions such as open charm loop diagrams or possible pentaquarks have to be fully understood. In this talk, I will present results on the unpolarized cross-section of the near-threshold photoproduction of J/$\psi$, using data taken by the CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab, on proton and deuterium targets. Perspectives to measure beam and target polarization observables will also be discussed.

        Speaker: Pierre Chatagnon (CEA Saclay)
    • Phenomenology
      • 12
        Hyperfine splittings of heavy quarkonium hybrids

        In the framework of the Born-Oppenheimer Effective Field Theory, the hyperfine structure of heavy quarkonium hybrids at leading order in the $1/m_Q$ expansion is determined by two potentials. We estimate those potentials by interpolating between the known short distance behavior and the long distance behavior calculated in the QCD Effective String Theory. The long distance behavior depends, at leading order, on two parameters which can be obtained from the long distance behavior of the heavy quarkonium potentials (up to sign ambiguities). The short distance behavior depends, at leading order, on two extra paramentes, which are obtained from a lattice calculation of the lower lying charmonium hybrid multiplets. This allows us to predict the hyperfine splitting both of bottomonium hybrids and of higher multiplets of charmonium hybrids. We carry out a careful error analysis and compare with other approaches.

        Speaker: Sandra Tomàs Valls (ICCUB)
      • 13
        Studying the Glueball Spectrum within Constituent Models

        Glueballs are elusive states. These unique particles, arising directly from the non-Abelian nature of the QCD gauge symmetry, were theoretically predicted in the early 1970s. Yet, their experimental observation remains a matter of debate within the community. The existing signals are difficult to interpret, partly due to the lack of theoretical consensus on their expected properties.

        Various approaches have been employed to determine these properties, including calculations based on lattice QCD, Bethe-Salpeter equations, QCD sum rules, the bag model, and the Coulomb-gauge Hamiltonian. The present talk analyses the glueball spectrum from a different perspective, that of constituent models. In this framework, glueballs are treated as bound states of several constituent gluons. The focus is placed on the two-gluon sector, illustrating how a glueball mass spectrum can be obtained at relatively low numerical cost within this model. The issue of the constituent gluon mass is discussed in this context. The resulting masses are finally compared with those from lattice QCD and show notable agreement.

        Speaker: Cyrille Chevalier (University of Mons)
      • 14
        The Quark-Diquark Structure of Baryons

        Baryons can be described within several theoretical frameworks. Among them, the constituent approach is widely used. In this context, we aim to evaluate the accuracy of an approached model of baryons: the quark-diquark approximation. It consists in separating the three-body system into two subsequent two-body ones: a pair of two quarks (the diquark) and a subsystem consisting of the diquark and the remaining quark. This approximation is widely employed, but its accuracy is rarely evaluated. The goal of this work is to perform this evaluation by comparison with a three-body model. The baryon masses and characteristic distances are computed and analysed within both approaches. Additionally, an original procedure to establish the quark-diquark potential will be presented with the aim to increase the precision of this approximation.

        Speaker: Clara Tourbez (UMONS)
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
    • Phenomenology
      • 15
        Spectroscopy at BESIII: Overview of most recent results

        Over the past two decades, a new class of exotic states, commonly referred to as XYZ states, has been identified. These states are incompatible with the conventional quark–antiquark picture and are therefore considered candidates for tetraquarks, mesonic molecules, or hybrids. Since the BESIII experiment began colliding e⁺e⁻ beams in the center-of-mass energy range between 2.0 and 4.9 GeV, it has made major contributions to our understanding of this new family of states, which still lack a clear theoretical interpretation. BESIII data sets have allowed us to deepen our knowledge of the properties of charmonia, to investigate the light-hadron spectra, and to search for exotic XYZ hadrons and shed light on their nature. In this talk, I will present some of the most recent and noteworthy results from the BESIII collaboration, together with possible interpretations and their implications for the spectroscopy of non-ordinary hadrons.

        Speaker: Marco Scodeggio (INFN - Sezione di Ferrara)
      • 16
        Addressing the pΩ femtoscopy correlation function using baryon-baryon effective potentials

        We have generated an updated version of the pΩ potential for low-energy interactions based on an effective field theory approach. This potential, together with other potentials based either on different parametrizations or lattice QCD, have been used to solve the Schrödinger equation, obtaining the scattering wave functions. Using these wave functions, we have computed the pΩ femtoscopic correlation functions, comparing the results with those published by the ALICE collaboration. Building on this work on the direct problem in femtoscopy, we are starting to work on the inverse problem of computing the potential parameters from the correlation function values using neural networks.

        Speaker: Marc Piquer i Méndez (Universitat de Barcelona)
      • 17
        A search for molecular-type hidden charm pentaquarks with an improved unitarization method

        The existence of the nucleonic pentaquark resonances $P_{c\bar{c}}(4312)^+$, $P_{c\bar{c}}(4380)^+$, $P_{c\bar{c}}(4440)^+$, $P_{c\bar{c}}(4457)^+$, $P_{c\bar{c}s}(4338)^0$ and $P_{c\bar{c}s}(4459)^0$, established by the LHCb collaboration, has been one of the major discoveries in hadron physics in the latest years. Most of these states (5 out of 6) can be understood as hadronic molecules, namely bound states of a sufficiently attractive meson-baryon interaction.

        By unitarizing the scattering amplitude in the t-channel vector-meson exchange interaction model one can investigate the dynamically generated resonances. We revisited the procedure of the unitarized coupled-channel hidden gauge formalism, which has been a very successful approach in explaining many exotic hadrons in the charm and hidden charm sectors. The unitarization procedure requires the regularization of the meson-baryon loop function, commonly done using either a cut-off ($G^{\text{CO}}$) or dimensional regularization ($G^{\text{DR}}$). Although both schemes should yield similar results, some unphysical structures in the T-matrix were found that could not be associated to any resonance or bound state. We introduce a novel hybrid loop function ($G^{\text{HY}}$), which combines both dimensional and cut-off regularizations. This approach enables a cleaner analysis of the scattering amplitude by avoiding the generation of unphysical poles, while keeping the properties of the dynamically generated states unaltered. In particular, this improved procedure allows us to predict two new pentaquark states in the $S = -1 , \, I = 1$ sector. These states are dynamically generated in a very specific way, via a strong non-diagonal attraction between the two heaviest meson-baryon channels. This mechanism is also related to the generation of the two predicted pentaquark states in the $S=-2, \, I=1/2$ sector reported in PRL 130, 091903 (2023) and PRD 111, 054020 (2025). This effect was overlooked before, because other research groups were discouraged by the repulsive character of the diagonal kernel coefficients, and because the complex structure of the scattering amplitudes obtained with both $G^{\text{DR}}$ and $G^{\text{CO}}$ - with unphysical structures - has obscured these physical states.

        We hope that our work would stimulate experiments looking for these new pentaquark states, the discovery of which would enrich the family of observed exotic baryons.

        Speaker: Erick Einar Garcia Gonzales
    • 13:00
      Lunch break
    • Phenomenology
      • 18
        Three-body decays with Khuri-Treiman equations

        One of the main issues posed by the presence of hadrons in any reaction is their final-state interactions, which are formally expressed in terms of the unitarity of the amplitude. In two-body scattering, unitarity is usually imposed in the direct channel only, as one is not sensitive to the details of the crossed channels. This is certainly not the case for a three-body decay, where the three possible two-hadron channels are physical, and one ideally wants to impose unitarity in all channels at once. The Khuri-Treiman formalism is a dispersive approach which indeed allows one to do so. In this talk, I will review the contributions made by the JPAC Collaboration to this field with focus on various important applications, e.g. $V\to3\pi$ $(V=\omega,\phi,J/\psi)$ or the exotic $\pi_{1}(1600)\to3\pi$ decay.

        Speaker: Sergi Gonzalez-Solis (Universitat de Barcelona & ICCUB)
      • 19
        A 3-body formalism for determining the nature of X(3872)

        S-matrix theory is one of the most powerful framework to study the unstable states
        that populate QCD spectrum. In particular, it is very useful to extract physical properties
        of the "exotics" candidates - particles that cannot be described by ordinary quark model -
        in a non perturbative, phenomenological way. In this talk, I will introduce some 3-body formalisms we are developing to determine the nature of the tetraquark candidate X(3872) in the S-matrix context: are the long-range interaction mediated by pions enough strong to bind it?

        Speaker: Giorgio Foti (University of Messina & INFN Catania)
      • 20
        Probing $\eta\pi$ Production with Finite-Energy Sum Rules

        The study of hadronic scattering processes remains fundamental for understanding the dynamics of strong interactions across energy scales. Finite-Energy Sum Rules (FESR) provide a powerful framework for connecting low-energy resonance behavior with the high-energy regime described by Regge theory, offering valuable constraints on phenomenological amplitudes. Motivated by the COMPASS measurements of ($\eta\pi$) production, the reaction ($\pi p \to \pi \eta p$) is examined within this framework. This channel is particularly well suited for probing the transition between resonance-dominated and Regge-dominated dynamics, and for exploring possible contributions from exotic mesons. The analysis sheds light on the consistency of amplitude descriptions across energies and enhances our understanding of the mechanisms governing ($\eta\pi$) production.

        Speaker: Nadine Hammoud (University of Barcelona, Faculty of Physics)
    • 16:00
      Coffee break
    • Phenomenology
      • 21
        Coupled-channel analysis of diffractively produced $\eta\pi$ and $\eta^{\prime}\pi$ final states using the full COMPASS data set

        Lattice QCD and models predict the lightest hybrid meson with explicit gluonic degrees of freedom to have spin-exotic quantum numbers $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$ and a mass below $2\,\text{GeV}$. Experiments have reported two candidates with such exotic quantum numbers, the $\pi_1(1400)$ in the $\eta\pi$ channel and the $\pi_1(1600)$, which has been observed in various final states, including $\eta^\prime\pi$. However, two spin-exotic states at roughly the same mass are not expected. This puzzle was recently resolved by an analysis by JPAC performed on COMPASS data of the $\eta^{(\prime)}\pi$ final states.
        The analysis presented in this talk uses the full $\eta^{(\prime)}\pi$ data set measured at the COMPASS experiment. As in the earlier JPAC analysis, we employ a coupled-channel $N/D$ amplitude model that incorporates theoretical constraints such as unitarity and analyticity. Intensities and relative phases of the $J^{PC}=2^{++}$ $D$-wave and the exotic $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$ $P$-wave are simultaneously fitted. By analytically continuing the amplitudes to the complex plane, we extract the pole positions of all relevant resonances. We find a single pole in the $P$-wave, consistent with previous results, and two poles in the $D$-wave associated with the two well known states $a_2(1320)$ and $a_2^\prime(1700)$. The high statistics of the full $\eta^{(\prime)}\pi$ data set also allow for a future $t^\prime$-dependent analysis to further improve the separation of resonant and non-resonant contributions.

        Speaker: Max Hariegel for the COMPASS Collaboration
    • Machine Learning
      • 22
        Machine Learning aided pole localization for the resonance $a_0(980)$ - status of the project.

        Using several amplitude parametrizations like explicitly unitary amplitudes in the scattering length approximation and the separable potentials we describe the coupled channel $\pi\eta$, $K\overline{K}$ scattering in the vicinity of the $a_0(980)$ resonance.

        Then we train the neural network to localize the poles corresponding to the $a_0(980)$ resonance across several decay reactions. We aim for a global analysis that evaluates the pole determinations by different experiments and checks the consistency of various model approaches. Status of this project will be presented.

        Speaker: Łukasz Bibrzycki (AGH University of Krakow)
      • 23
        Learning the spectrum with Neural Quantum States

        The quantum many-body problem lies at the heart of a wide spectrum of physical phenomena, ranging from interacting quarks to molecular dynamics, yet it poses a great computational challenge that remains unsolved. Traditional approaches often face a trade-off between accuracy and tractability, due to an underlying issue commonly known as the “curse of dimensionality”. In this context, the method of Neural Quantum States (NQS) [1] offers a promising way around these difficulties. The Variational Monte Carlo framework tames the exponentially growing number of states, while the use of neural network ansätze equips it with great representation power. In this talk, I will introduce the core ideas behind NQS and highlight some of their most successful applications, ranging from Quantum Chemistry [2, 3] to ab-initio Nuclear Structure [4-6]. I will also discuss current challenges in the field and outline major research directions shaping the development of NQS methods.

        [1] G. Carleo and M. Troyer, Science 355 602-606 (2017)
        [2] D. Pfau, J. Spencer et al., Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033429 (2020)
        [3] D. Pfau, S. Axelrod et al., Science 385 (2024)
        [4] J. Keeble and A. Rios, Phys. Lett. B 135743 (2020)
        [5] A. Gnech, B. Fore et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.133, 142501 (2024)
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        Speaker: Javi Rozalén Sarmiento (Universitat de Barcelona)
      • 24
        A variational approach to quantum field theory

        In strongly coupled field theories, perturbation theory cannot be employed to study the low-energy spectrum. Thus, non-perturbative techniques are required. One possibility is the Lagrangian approach, where energies are extracted from the Euclidean-time dependence of correlation functions. This method suffers from excited-state contamination at shorter times and rapidly growing statistical noise at larger times, leaving only a narrow time window to extract the energy of the system. An alternative is the variational approach in the Hamiltonian formalism, which does not present such signal-to-noise problem. However, it recquires the choice of a trial wave function. In this work, we study the viability of employing a neural network as a variational ansatz. As a first step towards more phenomenologically interesting strongly coupled theories, like quantum chromodynamics, we study scalar field theories with quartic couplings.

        Speaker: Mr Martí Rovira i Pons (Universitat de Barcelona | ICCUB)
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
    • JPAC meeting
    • 13:00
      Lunch break