<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear all,</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Here is a reminder for the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> theory seminar tomorrow:</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Theory seminar:</span></u></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Monday, March</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> 18th, 1:00PM, Room L102</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Andrea Schindler </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">(Michigan State University</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">), "</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Nucleon Electric Dipole Moment results from lattice QCD using the Gradient Flow</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">"</span><br class=""></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""></p><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Abstract: </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The electric dipole moments (EDMs) of the neutron and proton </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">are very sensitive probes of CP-violating sources beyond those contained in the Standard Model (SM). </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">In fact, the current bound on the neutron EDM strongly constrains many models of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">beyond-the-SM (BSM) physics. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">At current experimental accuracies, a nonzero nucleon EDM cannot be accounted </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">for by the phase in the quark-mass matrix. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">This implies that such a signal is either caused by a nonzero QCD theta term, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">or by genuine BSM physics which, at low energies, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">can be parametrized in terms of higher- dimensional CP-violating quark-gluon operators. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I will present recent results we have obtained from lattice QCD for the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">nucleon EDM induced by the theta term in QCD, by the quark-chromo </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">and by the Weinberg operator. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">A key tool for our calculation is the use of the Gradient Flow. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I will clarify the importance of the Gradient Flow in renormalizing the CP-violating </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">operators and discuss the difficulties and pitfalls that </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">an EDM lattice QCD calculation entails.</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Thank you.</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Carlota, Vincent and Raza</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>