String theory for pedestrians

Pedro Bicudo (CeFEMA)

Place: Physics Seminar Room – Physics Building – 2nd flour and Online (Zoom)
Date: July 13th, 2021
Time: 15h00

Abstract
We show how to compute from scratch, using undergraduate quantum mechanics techniques, the energy spectrum of the open (with Dirichlet boundary conditions) bosonic string with transverse degrees of freedom (the Nambu-Goto string) in the large distance case.