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Hello All,
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<div class="ContentPasted0">This coming Wednesday, March 29th, at 1:00 PM (EDT), Chien-Yeah Seng will give our next hybrid theory seminar. We want to highlight that this seminar is one of the ODU + JLab joint position interviews. If you will be on-site and
are comfortable doing so, please join us in room L102 of CEBAF Center. Otherwise, Chien-Yeah's seminar will also be provided virtually on our usual ZoomGov link:
<a href="https://jlab-org.zoomgov.com/j/1611179843?pwd=M09CNTFpbFVZSW1IQlhIMGp3RUVHUT09" id="LPlnk778261">
https://jlab-org.zoomgov.com/j/1611179843?pwd=M09CNTFpbFVZSW1IQlhIMGp3RUVHUT09</a>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">Please see below for the title and abstract.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><b><u>Theory Seminar</u></b></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">Wednesday, March 29th at 1:00 PM</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><b><u>Chien-Yeah Seng</u></b> (Michigan State and University of Washington)</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><b><u>Abstract</u></b>:</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">The experimental determination of the first-row Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element Vud has reached an impressive 0.03% level, serving as one of the most powerful tests of the Standard Model (SM) at low energies. In recent
years, an apparent deficit of the first-row CKM matrix unitarity at the level of 3 sigma is observed, which provides possible indications of New Physics. The major obstacles to a confirmed discovery are the hadronic and nuclear theory uncertainties in the
SM inputs that enter the Vud extraction. In this seminar I will describe how a combination of experimental data, lattice QCD and ab-initio nuclear theory calculations could ultimately pin down these inputs, and how we may benefit from current and future experimental
programs at Jefferson Lab.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">Best Regards,</div>
Caroline, Colin, & Patrick<br>
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