[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Particle Phys/SciTec Seminar today at 11:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Thu 2015-11-05 at 11:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Corrado Gatto (INFN)

Title:     The REDTOP project: Rare Eta Decays with a Tpc for Optical Photons

Abstract: The eta meson is almost unique in the particle universe for its quantum numbers as they match those of the vacuum (except for P and CP). The fact that the eta has no charges  will expose any decay violating a conservation law without interfering with a corresponding current. The integrated eta meson samples collected by various experiments in the past is of the order of 10^8 events, limiting considerably the search for such rare decays.  A new experiment: REDTOP,  is being proposed at the proton booster of Fermilab with the intent of collecting 10^12 triggers/year and studying rare eta decays. The physics potential, the accelerators system and the detector of REDTOP will be discussed during the colloquium.



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