[Theory-seminars] Indiana Postion Interview: Mikhael Gorchtein. TODAY at 4pm. Room L102

[Cesar Fernandez-Ramirez]

Dear all,

Today at 4pm, Room L102, there will be the last of the interviews for the Assistant Professor position at Indiana University. The interview will be conducted at Indiana University and will be broadcasted to JLab.

The fifth candidate is Mikhael Gorchtein. 

Title: The low-energy frontier of the Standard Model: from hadrons to New Physics

Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) has been tremendously successful in explaining all particle physics observations so far. However, there are strong indications that yet unknown particles and/or interactions have to exist. The Precision, or Low-Energy frontier of the Standard Model aims at detecting effects of this New Physics as deviations from the SM predictions in low-energy observables, and the precision of measurements and calculations of these observables is in direct correspondence with the scale at which the New Physics emerges. This requires understanding the SM at low energies, most notably the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions. QCD explains the strongly interacting matter and its properties in terms of quarks and gluons, and it is a complicated multi-scale problem. The detailed understanding of the QCD in the non-perturbative regime is lacking, and a joined effort from Lattice, Effective Field Theories and Phenomenology is necessary. On the example of the parity-violating electron scattering and light muonic atoms I will review how state-of-the-art calculations helped improving the precision of the SM predictions in the kinematics of running and upcoming experiments, and motivated new dedicated experiments. 

Best regards,

Cesar

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César Fernández-Ramírez

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