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SUMMARY:Quarks and their quirks - Professor Christine Davies\, Department 
 of Physics\, University of Glasgow
DTSTART:20071121T161500Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: How much could you learn about baked beans if you we
 re unable to open a tin? We face the same problem with quarks. They are th
 e building blocks of matter at the deepest level that we have reached insi
 de the atomic nucleus\, but we cannot study them directly. What we have to
  do is to measure the properties of their bound states called hadrons (exa
 mples are the proton and neutron) and then infer \nthe properties of quark
 s by comparing to theoretical calculations. Recently there has been a huge
  improvement in the accuracy possible from theory and I will describe how 
 this progress has come about. Combined with existing experimental results 
 and new ones from Fermilab\, SLAC and KEK this is leading to much much imp
 roved understanding of the properties of quarks and will in turn place lim
 itations on theories that attempt to go to the next level.
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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