About
The fine structure constant is this "magic and enigmatic" number close to 1/137 that appears in several areas of physics. This dimensionless constant characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between light and charged elementary particles, such as electron or muon. A precise knowledge of its numerical value is crucial to test, even with low-energy experiments, the calculations of quantum electrodynamics and some theoretical predictions of the Standard Model.
In this seminar, I will present our experiment that recently led to a new determination of the fine-structure constant with a relative uncertainty of $8.1 \times 10^{-11}$ and discuss the impact of this result on the tests of the Standard Model.
EP Seminar 4 May: https://cern.zoom.us/j/61684350049?pwd=RStaOFVBa2ZMeGozTDliWkw2ZG53UT09.
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- EP Seminar
- Speaker
- Saida GUELLATI
- Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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