[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 11:00

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Date/Time: Fri 2008-02-08 at 11:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Richard Hill (Fermilab)

Title:     How fermions work:  new interactions from the anomalous behavior of quarks, leptons and gauge fields

Abstract: "Anomalies" are a peculiar feature of interacting fermions and gauge fields. They lead to surprising predictions.  For example, quantum mechanical consistency enforces nontrivial relations between the electric charges of quarks and leptons in the Standard Model.  The well-predicted decay of the neutral pion into two photons was an important early clue leading to QCD, the modern theory of the strong interactions. I describe new applications of this phenomenon, including neutrino interactions and QCD vector meson processes in the Standard Model; and probes of electroweak symmetry breaking beyond the Standard Model.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk. The speaker is a candidate for a research scientist position in the theory group.

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