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High Energy Theory Seminar

Friday, March 14, 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
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Flavor Physics from Quantum Entanglement?
Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

 Understanding the flavor structure of quarks and leptons is a longstanding question in particle physics.  In this blackboard talk, I report on a surprising connection between flavor mixing angles and quantum entanglement.  Specifically, I show how CKM-like and PMNS-like mixing matrices can be derived from minimizing flavor entanglement in elastic two-to-two electroweak scattering. 

The talk is in 469 Lauritsen.

Contact theoryinfo@caltech.edu for Zoom information.