Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in using lattice QCD to predict nuclear physics phenomena, highlighting techniques, recent calculations, and future prospects with computational resource estimates.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current lattice QCD methods applied to nuclear physics and outlines future goals and resource needs.

Findings

Successful extraction of low-energy hadronic scattering amplitudes

Recent two-body and few-body nuclear calculations

Projected advancements in nuclear physics with lattice QCD

Abstract

We review recent progress toward establishing lattice Quantum Chromodynamics as a predictive calculational framework for nuclear physics. A survey of the current techniques that are used to extract low-energy hadronic scattering amplitudes and interactions is followed by a review of recent two-body and few-body calculations by the NPLQCD collaboration and others. An outline of the nuclear physics that is expected to be accomplished with Lattice QCD in the next decade, along with estimates of the required computational resources, is presented.