the Rich Physics of Nuclear Muon Capture

Presenter Full Name
Dr. Tom Banks
Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Year & Semester
2009 Fall
Presentation Date
October 5, 2009

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.]