{"id":192646,"date":"2024-07-09T16:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T21:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ab-initio-methods-help-scientists-make-sense-of-complex-particle-collisions"},"modified":"2024-07-09T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T21:37:53","slug":"ab-initio-methods-help-scientists-make-sense-of-complex-particle-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ab-initio-methods-help-scientists-make-sense-of-complex-particle-collisions","title":{"rendered":"Ab initio methods help scientists make sense of complex particle collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ab-initio-methods-help-scientists-make-sense-of-complex-particle-collisions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When atomic nuclei and subatomic particles interact, the results are incredibly complex. These are the \u201cmany body problems\u201d of quantum mechanics. To help make sense of these interactions, scientists create ways to simplify the range of possible outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>One example is \u201ceffective interactions,\u201d which simplify the interactions between a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nucleon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nucleon<\/a> (a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/proton\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">proton<\/a> or a neutron) and an atomic nucleus. Effective interactions help scientists develop theories of the reactions that result when nuclei collide with each other or with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/subatomic+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">subatomic particles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These tools are part of a group of methods called effective field theory (EFT). EFT in turn is a type of approach called \u201cab initio,\u201d or \u201cfirst principles.\u201d Ab initio means a calculation starts with the established laws of physics without any other assumptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When atomic nuclei and subatomic particles interact, the results are incredibly complex. These are the \u201cmany body problems\u201d of quantum mechanics. To help make sense of these interactions, scientists create ways to simplify the range of possible outcomes. One example is \u201ceffective interactions,\u201d which simplify the interactions between a nucleon (a proton or a neutron) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}