Name: Nikhef Colloquium: "Theoretical overview of kaon decays" (Prof. Antonio Pich)
Start: 2016-11-18T11:15:00+01:00
End: 2016-11-18T12:20:00+01:00
Location: Nikhef

Nikhef Colloquium: "Theoretical overview of kaon decays" (Prof. Antonio Pich)

Friday, 18 November 2016 - 11:15

Monday, 14 November 2016
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Friday, 18 November 2016
11:15 Theoretical overview of kaon decays - Antonio Pich (Univ. Valencia)
Theoretical overview of kaon decays
- Antonio Pich (Univ. Valencia)
11:15 - 12:05
Room: Z011 Abstract: Kaon decays are an important testing ground of the electroweak flavour theory. They can provide new signals of CP violation and, perhaps, a window into physics beyond the Standard Model. At the same time, they exhibit an interesting interplay of long-distance QCD effects in flavour-changing transitions. A brief overview is presented, focusing on a few selected topics of particular interest such as the extraction of the Cabibbo angle or the rare K decays into a single pion and neutrinos. The present understanding of the dominant kaon decays into two pions will be compared with results from recent lattice simulations, and the value of the CP-violating ratio epsilon'/epsilon will be discussed. This colloquium is part of the "Landelijk Seminarium @ Nikhef/CWI, Z011"