XXXV International Workshop on High Energy Physics "From Quarks to Galaxies: Elucidating Dark Sides"

The history of lattice field theory from a statistical perspective

1 дек. 2023 г., 17:50

30m

History, philosophy, methodology Afternoon session 1/12/2023

Speaker

Prof. Wolfgang Bietenholz (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

Описание

Researchers working in lattice field theory constitute an
established community since the early 1990s, and around the same time the online open-access e-print repository arXiv was
created. The fact that this field has a specific arXiv section,
hep-lat, provides a unique opportunity for a statistical study of
its evolution over the last three decades.
We present data for the number of entries, E, published papers, P, and citations, C, in total and separated by nations. We compare them to 6 other arXiv sections, (hep-ph, hep-th, gr-qc, nucl-th, quant-ph, cond-mat), and to socio-economic indices of the nations involved, namely the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Education Index (EI).
We present rankings, which are based either on the Hirsch Index H, or on the linear combination Sigma = E + P + 0.05 C. We consider both extensive and intensive national statistics, i.e. absolute and relative to the population or to the GDP.

Presentation Materials

protvino3.pdf