Abstract
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The EURIDICE project will perform a systematic in-depth theoretical and phenomen ological investigation of particle physics data that involve hadronic interactions, in order to understand and esti mate hadronic effects in high precision tests of the Standard Model. The main theoretical tool will be Effective Theories for Colours and flavours developed in order to study elementary particle interactions at both short and long distance.
The research objectives will be:
i) to help clarify the origin of CP violation, improve the theoretical precision for the Cabibbo Kobaya shi Maskawa matrix elements and the understanding of rare Kaon decays, investigate Quantum Mechanics entanglement an d its role in fixing CP-violating parameters,
ii) to sharpen the existing predictions of Chiral Perturbation Theory, determine effective low-energy couplings (LEC) from first principles, investigate the evolution of Chiral Symmetry Breaking with number of Colours and number of Flavours, investigate the order parameters of QCD and study Baryon CHPT and hype rnuclei,
iii) to improve the quark mass determinations,
iv) to improve the calculation of the hadronic effects in the fine structure constant and the anomalous magnetic moment of leptons,
v) to study heavy flavour decays and Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET),
vi) to study the strong interaction limit of QCD, firmly establish the new glueball spectroscopy and clarify the effect of strong interactions in heavy flavour decays.
Major breakthrough are anticipated in all of the above research topics. The network consists of 12 participants, from 10 European countries, widely distributed within Europe, including two participants from Associated States, one from Switzerland, and one from Poland. It also includes two partners, University of Valencia and DESY -Zeuthen from less favoured regions. Two of the 12 participant s have a woman scientist-in-charge. The expected total number of scientists involved is 169.
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