Collaboration

The USQCD collaboration was founded in 1999, for the purpose of creating and utilizing software and dedicated hardware resources for lattice gauge theory calculations. It is funded by Office of Science of the Department of Energy through several programs: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), High Energy Physics (HEP), and Nuclear Physics (NP). A majority of United States lattice gauge theorists are members.

For information about USQCD, browse this website or email one of the members of the Executive Committee:

Thomas Blum (EC chair), William Detmold (EC deputy chair), Peter Boyle, Martha Constantinou, Carleton DeTar, Robert Edwards, Anna Hasenfratz, Andreas Kronfeld, Huey-Wen Lin, Kostas Orginos, Peter Petreczky (SPC chair), Phiala Shanahan.

The EC chair and deputy chair serve as Spokesperson and Deputy Spokesperson of the USQCD Collaboration.

To join the USQCD Collaboration, please read the charter and code of conduct and then contact Thomas Blum or William Detmold with cc to Andreas Kronfeld.

Collaboration members

Collaboration documents:

• Charter of USQCD (rev. 2021)
• USQCD Data Management Plan (2021)
• 2019 HEP Science Narrative for LQCD extension III
• 2019 White Papers (published in Euro. Phys. J. A 55 (2019))
  • Hadrons and Nuclei
  • Hot-dense QCD
  • Opportunities for Lattice QCD in Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
  • Lattice QCD and Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
  • The Role of Lattice QCD in Searches for Violations of Fundamental Symmetries and Signals for New Physics
  • Lattice Gauge Theory for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
  • Status and Future Perspectives for Lattice Gauge Theory Calculations to the Exascale and Beyond
• Omnibus Proposal to INCITE 2020
• Proposals to INCITE 2019
• Hadron Structure Proposal to INCITE 2018
• Omnibus Proposal to INCITE 2017

Exascale Computing Project

Scientific Program

The main scientific aims are detailed in whitepapers, proposals to the DOE-HEP and DOE-NP for cluster computing, and proposals to DOE-ASCR programs for software development.

The scientific program of USQCD is coordinated by the Scientific Program Committee (SPC), which allocates computer time on the clusters (with an eye to USQCD allocations on leadership-class computers).

The SPC members are:

Peter Petreczky (SPC chair), Zohreh Davoudi, George Fleming, Chris Kelly, Stefan Meinel, Chris Monahan, Jim Simone.

The SPC's allocations are subject to a reductions policy for awardees who do not use their allocated computer time in an organized, timely way. The policy is spelled out here.

2019 USQCD Physics Projects

2018 USQCD Physics Projects

2017 USQCD Physics Projects

2016 USQCD Physics Projects

2015 USQCD Physics Projects

2014 USQCD Physics Projects

2013 USQCD Physics Projects

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The well-being of the members of the USQCD Collaboration is the concern of the Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI).

The CDEI members are:

William Detmold (CDEI chair), Kimmy Cushman, Robert Edwards (ex officio), Aida El-Khadra, Joel Giedt, Huey-Wen Lin.

USQCD has adopted a code of conduct for collaboration activities.