I am a post-doctoral research associate at SLAC and Stanford University, Physics department. My research is focused on the dynamics of gauge theories with applications to QCD and models considered for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics to be probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The latter includes supersymmetric theories and technicolor-like theories with a composite Higgs boson. My recent works give a new way to understand the observed permanent confinement of quarks in non-supersymmetric QCD-like theories and provides new insights to chiral gauge theories. My general interests are
- Gauge theory dynamics and its applications
- QCD, QCD-like and chiral theories
- Supersymmetry on lattice, lattice gauge theory
- Large-N volume independence, Eguchi-Kawai reduction, orbifold-orientifold equivalences,
- Thermal field theory, hot QCD
- 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.
- Gauge/string dualities, string theory, D-branes, topological field theories
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.
These methods provide new insights into the microscopic mechanisms of confinement, chiral symmetry breaking and deconfinement phase transition in non-supersymmetric gauge theories. They also provide a firmer microscopic understanding of the physics that yields the known exact results of supersymmetric QCD, a subject that I am working right now.
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.
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The picture was taken in the GreenRoom at SLAC.
Contact:
- unsal.mithat_at_gmail.com
- unsal_at_slac.stanford.edu (replace _at_ with @)
