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Sean Fleming Assistant Professor Department of Physics University of Arizona 1118 E. Fourth Street PO Box 210081 Tucson, AZ 85721 Email: fleming@physics.arizona.edu Phone: (520) 626-4377 Fax: (520) 621-4721 Office: 386C PAS Building

Research My research is focused on the development and application of effective field theories to quantum chromodynamics, with the ultimate goal of achieving a deeper understanding of the strong interactions that underlie nuclear physics. Measurements of QCD made by contemporary nuclear and particle experiments are often complicated by the presence of multiple disparate energy scales which obscure the relevant physics. The effective theories I develop and work with provide a powerful organizing tool for systematically separating different scales, resulting in a simpler and more predictive framework. I have worked on non-relativistic effective theories of the strong interactions (NRQCD), an effective theory of heavy nucleons coupled to pions, heavy-quark effective theory (HQET), and soft collinear effective theory (SCET). Publications  Links SCET Workshop Spring 2006 at UA SCET Workshop Spring 2007 LBL SCET Workshop Spring 2008 Mainz UA Webcam

Students: Michael Fickinger: SCET Emanuele Mereghetti: SCET Delphine Perrodin: Effective Theories of Gravity Postdoc: Masaoki Kusunoki: SCET, NRQCD and Effective Theories at Large Scattering Length