<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[Jlab-seminars] Today's Virtual Physics Division Lunch Seminar: Kent Paschke; </b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">November 6, 2020 at 8:41:57 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:jlab-seminars@jlab.org" class="">jlab-seminars@jlab.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:jlab-seminars@jlab.org" class="">jlab-seminars@jlab.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0in;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Virtual Physics Division Lunch Seminar<o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span class="value"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span class="value"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Kent Paschke<o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span class="value"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">University of Virginia</span></b></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">New Measurement of the Neutral Weak Form-Factor of the Pb-208: PREX-2</span></i><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span class="">Abstract:</span></b><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Electromagnetic probes of nuclear matter have along served nuclear physics by mapping the distribution of electromagnetic charge. Direct studies of the neutron distribution, however, have been confounded by strong interaction dynamics or other complications to interpretation. As such, there is strong interest in measuring an observable which could be robustly interpreted to illuminate the distribution of neutrons in the nuclei. </span><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">The violation of the parity symmetry in elastic electron-nuclear scattering provides such an observable. Parity-violation is the hallmark of the weak interaction, and parity-violation in elastic scattering provides a measurement of the distribution of the weak charge of the nucleus, analogous to that of the electric charge in electromagnetic scattering. The neutron weak charge is large relative to that of the proton, so the neutron distribution is implied by such a measurement. For specific kinematics, this measurement would be in particular sensitive to the thickness of the neutron skin which is thought to form in neutron-rich nuclei.</span><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">The PREX-2 collaboration has now realized the potential of a measurement first proposed for Jefferson Lab’s Hall A in 2001, completing the measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from an isotopically pure lead-208 target. This result provides a robust determination of the neutron skin thickness in lead-208, corresponding to a constraint on the density dependence of the symmetry energy in the nuclear equation of state. This result is important in describing the nuclear equation of state, with implications for the central density of saturated nuclear matter and to astronomical observations of neutron stars. This new result will be presented and the experimental techniques that led to the success of this measurement will be described.</span><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Friday, November 6, 2020<o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">12:00pm<o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://bluejeans.com/245615984" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">https://bluejeans.com/245615984</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Upcoming Seminars:<o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Nov. 13<sup class="">th</sup>: Results from the Ar(e,e’p) experiment: Camillo Mariani (Virginia Tech)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>