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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><small><span
style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Jefferson Lab Advanced Study
Institute<br>
“<b style="">Extracting Physics From Precision Experiments</b>:<br>
Techniques of Amplitude Analysis”<o:p></o:p></span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><small><span
style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>College of William
& Mary<br>
Williamsburg, Virginia,
USA<br>
Wed., May 30 – Wed., June 13, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB">In
preparation
for the analysis of ongoing precision data-taking at BESIII, COMPASS
and LHCb,
and future experiments at JLab@12 GeV and PANDA@Fair, Thomas Jefferson
National
Accelerator Facility (JLab) is organizing a two-week advanced course
covering <i style="">Techniques of Amplitude Analysis</i>, aimed
at postdoctoral researchers and advanced doctoral students in nuclear
and
particle physics. This Study Institute will comprise pedagogical
lectures with
exercises and discussion sessions covering: </span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>Basics
of Scattering
(S-Matrix) Theory, including<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">what is a resonance<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">poles in the energy plane</span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB">Implementing
Unitarity<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">two-body and three-body<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">relating reactions with common
final states</span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB">Dynamical
Coupled Channel Analysis Program </span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB">Dalitz
Plot Analysis Techniques and Their Applications</span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB">Role
of Crossing
and Analyticity:<br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB"> - dispersion relations<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">Regge theory</span><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<br>
</span></span></span></small></p>
<small><span lang="EN-GB">Models of Hadrons, Their Interactions and
Decays:<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">the quark model<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">chiral dynamics<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">lattice QCD results<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">CKM matrix elements<br>
- </span><span lang="EN-GB">CP violation</span><br>
<br>
</small>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><b style=""><span
lang="EN-GB">Lecturers: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Suh-urk Chung
(BNL/TUM), Jozef Dudek (JLab/ODU), Bastian Kubis (Bonn),<span style="">
</span>T-S (Harry) Lee (ANL), Brian Meadows (U.
Cincinnati), Antimo Palano (INFN, Bari), Michael Pennington (JLab),
Klaus
Peters (GSI, Darmstadt), Ron Workman (GWU) <o:p></o:p></span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Discussion
Leaders: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Maria
Elena Boglione (INFN, Torino), Peng Guo (JLab), Veronique Ziegler (JLab)<span
style=""> and</span> others (to
be confirmed). <br>
</span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span>The
Institute is
aimed at those interested in phenomenological research at the precision
frontier in hadron physics, with either an experimental or theoretical
background.<span style=""> </span>The course will be structured to
have three four-day periods of lectures with a “day off” between. Each
lecture day will have
three 90-minute sessions followed by an open-ended exercise and
discussion
session. </small></p>
<small><span lang="EN-GB"></span>
</small>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><b style=""><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>Day 1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of
lectures: Thurs., May 31 </span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><b style=""><span
lang="EN-GB">Days 1-4</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">:<span style=""> </span><span
style=""></span>Suh-urk
Chung, Bastian Kubis, Michael Pennington</span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><b style=""><span
lang="EN-GB">Days 6-9:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span><span
style=""></span>Jo
Dudek, Harry Lee, Klaus Peters</span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><b style=""><span
lang="EN-GB">Days 11-14</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: Brian
Meadows, Antimo Palano, Ron Workman </span></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><small><b style=""><span
lang="EN-GB">Days 5 and 10</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
</span>(i.e., Mon., June 4 and Sat., June 9): No lectures.<br>
<o:p> </o:p><br>
The registration
fee for the course is $600. Participants will be accommodated in<span
style=""> </span>apartments at the College of William &
Mary within easy walking distance of the town center and of the Physics
Department, where the sessions will be held. Accommodations for the two
weeks
will also be roughly $600. <span style=""></span>Online registration
for the course and for lodging will open shortly on<span style=""> </span>the
JLab website</span></small><small><span lang="EN-GB">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.jlab.org/conferences/asi2012">http://www.jlab.org/conferences/asi2012</a>.
This will give the
exact costs and details of what the registration fee and lodging
payments
cover.</span></small></p>
<small><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>A
poster for the
<i>Advanced Study Institute</i> course can be downloaded from the
website. The deadline for
registration and lodging is <b style="">April 15,
2012.</b></span>
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