Speaker
Svetlana Barkanova
(Acadia University)
Description
Although the Electroweak Standard Model of Particle Physics has been enormously successful to date, we known it is incomplete. High-precision parity-violating electroweak experiments can provide access to new physics at a wide range of energy scales and play an important complementary role to the LHC research program.
The talk will provide an overview on the past, present and future of precision tests of the Standard Model with the special attention on Qweak and MOLLER experiments. The first subset of results from Qweak recently completed at JLab provides the smallest e-p asymmetry ever measured making possible the first determination of the weak charge of the proton. The MOLLER experiment will measure the parity-violating asymmetry in e-e (Møller) scattering proportional to the weak charge of the electron, another excellent place to look for new physics.
We will also briefly outline further development of the theoretical and computational approaches to higher-order electroweak effects needed for the accurate interpretation of experimental data. The talk is aimed to physicists in all fields of research.
Authors
Aleksandrs Aleksejevs
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Svetlana Barkanova
(Acadia University)
