the Rich Physics of Nuclear Muon Capture

Dr. Tom Banks
University of California, Berkeley

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Tom Banks of the University of California, Berkeley will describe recent efforts by the MuCap Collaboration to precisely measure the rate of nuclear muon capture in hydrogen, and how the process of muon capture--which involves electromagnetism, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction--is a unique confluence of a diverse range of physics. [Available on DVD in the SSU library.]