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SUMMARY:PIONEER: A next-generation rare pion decay experiment
DTSTART:20251002T130000Z
DTEND:20251002T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: David Hertzog (University of Washington)\n\nAbstract
 : \nThe fundamental principle of Flavor Universality is a centerpiece of 
 the Standard Model of Particle Physics. PIONEER is a new experiment set to
  challenge this principle by studying the rarest decays of the charged pio
 n. With this new apparatus\, we aim to improve the rare pion decay measure
 ments up to 15-fold over the current ones and probe the Standard Model at 
 energy scales beyond the reach of colliders. Our experiment design benefit
 s from past-generation experiments and employs emergent technologies in tr
 acking and calorimetry. In this talk\, I will discuss the physics case of 
 the experiment\, review its conceptual design and present the ongoing R&D 
 effort toward building the detector for the first phase of the project. I 
 will also describe the additional physics goals\, which include exotic sea
 rches and\, in a slightly reconfigured setup\, a measurement of pion beta 
 decay to determine Vud in a theoretically clean manner.\n \n\nhttps://age
 nda.infn.it/event/48583/
LOCATION:Sala G. Galilei (131) (INFN - Pisa)
URL:https://agenda.infn.it/event/48583/
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