I am a post-doctoral research associate at SLAC and Stanford University, Physics department. My research is focused on the non-perturbative dynamics of gauge theories. I am interested in developing new methods to understand the physics of the strong-coupling regime in QCD, the theory of strong interactions, and in a wide variety of models that generalize this theory in different directions. My work gives a new way to understand the observed permanent confinement of quarks in the strong interactions. It also gives new tools for studying models considered for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics to be probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including models with supersymmetry and models of the composite Higgs bosons.
My research is motivated by physical problems in gauge theories, as opposed to particular techniques. Due to this reason, besides borrowing recent techniques from supersymmetry, string/D-brane theory, and lattice field theory, I have also developed a variety of new field theoretic ideas and methods. My interests include
- Gauge theory dynamics and its applications
- QCD, QCD-like and chiral theories, hadron physics
- Physics beyond the Standard Model
- Supersymmetric gauge dynamics and supersymmetry breaking
- Classification of topological excitations (magnetic monopoles, bions, triplets and other odd-balls) and confinement mechanisms.
- Lattice gauge theory, supersymmetry on lattice
- Large-N limits, orbifold-orientifold equivalences, volume independence, Eguchi-Kawai reduction
- Gauge/string dualities, string theory, D-branes, topological field theories
You can see my papers at Spires: Publications
Below is a photo of mine (Photo courtesy of Brad Plummer, SLAC), in front of a blackboard. In the background, there is a cartoon of my most favorite topological excitations, magnetic monopoles and magnetic bions.
The picture was taken in the GreenRoom at SLAC.
Contact:
- unsal.mithat_at_gmail.com
- unsal_at_slac.stanford.edu (replace _at_ with @)
