Lattice QCD and the Computational Frontier

Understand

The search for new physics requires a joint experimental and theoretical effort.

• Lattice QCD is already an essential tool for obtaining precise model-free theoretical predictions of the hadronic processes underlying many key experimental searches, such as those involving heavy flavor physics, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, nucleon-neutrino scattering, and rare, second-order electroweak processes.
• As experimental measurements become more precise over the next decade, lattice QCD will play an increasing role in providing the needed matching theoretical precision.
• Achieving the needed precision requires simulations with lattices with substantially increased resolution.