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<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Today, November 16th at 1 PM (EST), Raju Venugopalan will give our next in-person cake seminar in CC F224-225.</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Please see below for the details.</div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0"><u><b class="ContentPasted0">Cake Seminar</b></u></div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Wednesday, November 16th at 1:00 PM</div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0"><u><b class="ContentPasted0">Raju Venugopalan</b></u> (BNL)</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">will discuss "A big role for a phase: The chiral anomaly and sphaleron transitions in polarized deeply inelastic scattering"</div>
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0"><u><b class="ContentPasted0">Abstract:</b></u></div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">We argue that the physics underlying topological mass generation in QCD (the UA(1) problem) is
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">also the physics that explains the helicity of the proton. Just as for the famous case of pi0 -> 2 photons,
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">a key role is played by a phase in the Dirac determinant required for the consistency of the theory. We suggest that measurements of polarized
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">structure functions at an Electron-Ion Collider can uncover first evidence for topological "sphaleron-like" transitions in nature.</div>
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