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SUMMARY:Charged Lepton Flavour Violation: a factor one million improvement
  - Yoshi Uchida (Imperial)
DTSTART:20101019T140000Z
DTEND:20101019T150000Z
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CONTACT:John Marshall
DESCRIPTION:Flavour-changing transitions of charged leptons have been a to
 pic of\nexperimental investigation since the early days of particle physic
 s\, and\nthis helped shape some of the basic laws that any successful mode
 l of\nparticle physics would have to obey\, including what we now call the
 \nStandard Model.\n\nWhile such phenomena have never been observed to date
 \, when the\ndiscovery of neutrino masses and oscillations broke the Stand
 ard Model\,\nit transformed the question "Does charged lepton flavour viol
 ation\nexist?" into "How much?" and "How?"\, and even "Why haven't we seen
  it\nyet?".\n\nIn this seminar\, I will describe the current experimental 
 and\ntheoretical state of the field\, and why the next generation of\nexpe
 riments could hold the keys that lead the way to a fuller\nunderstanding o
 f our universe\, offering complementary discoveries that\nexperiments at t
 he high-energy frontier cannot reach.\n\nI will then focus on muon-to-elec
 tron conversion experimentation\, and\nspecifically the COMET/PRISM progra
 mme which is promising a sensitivity\nimprovement of four orders of magnit
 ude compared to the current record\,\npotentially improving to six orders\
 , which could open the path to\nprecision measurements with multiple lepto
 n flavour-violating probes of\nPhysics Beyond the Standard Model.
LOCATION:Rutherford Seminar Room B
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