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From: Damien George <dpgeorge@nikhef.nl>
Date: May 31, 2011 9:45:59 AM GMT+02:00
Subject: [Theory-wide] Nikhef theory seminar -- today @ 2pm

Dear all,

Today we have a theory seminar at 2pm in room H331.  The speaker is
Giulia Ricciardi from Naples.  See below for details.

Regards,
Damien George and Mert Aybat.

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Date/place: Tuesday 31st May, 2pm, H331
Speaker:    Giulia Ricciardi (Naples)
Title:      eta - eta prime Mixing - From electromagnetic transitions
to weak decays of charm and beauty hadrons

It has been realized for a long time that knowing the eta and
eta-prime wave functions in terms of quark and gluon components probes
our understanding of non-perturbative QCD dynamics. Great effort has been
given to this  challenge -- yet no clear picture has emerged even with the
most recent KLOE data. We point out which measurements would be most
helpful in arriving at a more definite conclusion. A better knowledge of
these wave functions will significantly help to disentangle the weight of
different decay subprocesses in semi-leptonic decays of D+, Ds^+ and B+
mesons. The resulting insights will be instrumental in treating even
non-leptonic B transitions involving &eta; and &eta;-prime and their CP
asymmetries; thus they can sharpen the case for or against New Physics
intervening there.

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