Date of Award
Fall 1-1-2025
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Physics
First Advisor
Moult, Ian
Abstract
Roughly a microsecond after the big-bang, the universe was too hot and dense to form the protons or neutrons of quotidian matter. The process in which a hot soup of quarks and gluons coalesced into standard matter was strongly-coupled and dynamical, making it difficult to analyze with standard techniques such as perturbative QFT and lattice simulations. This thesis showcases various attempts at better understanding this enigmatic phenomenon: effective field theory (Phys.Lett.B 23), CFT approaches to quantum information theory (JHEP 24, JHEP 25), and Energy-Energy Correlators (in progress).
Recommended Citation
Lap, Joseph Dominicus, "Approaches to Strongly-Coupled Field Theory" (2025). Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations. 1926.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/gsas_dissertations/1926