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<h1>PKI 2018</h1>
<p class="first"><strong>Pion-Kaon Interactions Workshop</strong><br>
February 14-15, 2018<br>
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility<br>
Newport News, VA</p>
<p class="first">Webpage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.jlab.org/conferences/pki2018/">https://www.jlab.org/conferences/pki2018/</a><br>
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<h2>Circular</h2>
<p>The pi-K scattering enables direct investigations of scalar and
vector K* states, including the not yet established S-wave k(800)
state. These studies are also needed to get precise values of
vector and scalar form factors: to independently extract CKM
matrix element Vus and to test the Standard Model unitarity
relation in the first row of CKM matrix, to study CP violation
from the Dalitz plot analysis of open charm D meson decays and in
a charmless decays of B mesons in Kpipi final states. Significant
progress is made lately in Lattice QCD, in the phenomenology and
in the Chiral Perturbation Theory to describe different aspects of
pi-K scattering. The main source of experimental data is based on
experiments performed in SLAC almost five decades ago at 1970-80s.
The recently proposed KL Facility incorporating the GlueX
spectrometer at JLab will be able to improve the pi-K scattering
database by about three orders of magnitude in statistics. The
workshop will discuss the necessity for and the impact of the
future high statistics data obtained at JLab on pi-K scattering.
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<h2>Organizing Committe:</h2>
<p>Moskov Amaryan, ODU (Chair)<br>
Ulf-G. Meissner, U. Bonn/FZ Juelich<br>
Curtis Meyer, CMU<br>
James Ritman, Ruhr-Bochum U./FZ Juelich<br>
Igor Strakovsky, GWU</p>
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