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SUMMARY:Student Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Sean Foster and Sam Rosen\, Boston University\nHosted
	 by: Eric Boyers\n\nPart of the Graduate Student Council Events.\n\nPart of
	 the student seminar series. A recording of the meeting will be posted here
	 after the seminar.\n\nSean Foster - The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab\n\
	nAbstract: Since the completion of the Muon g-2 experiment at Brookhaven Na
	tional Lab (BNL) in the early 2000s\, there has been a persistent tension o
	f 3-4 sigma between the experimental and Standard Model (SM) values of the 
	muon magnetic anomaly. An exciting possibility is that this tension could b
	e a hint of physics beyond the SM. In an attempt to resolve or confirm this
	 tension in the value of the muon magnetic anomaly\, the Muon g-2 experimen
	t at Fermilab\, which has been collecting data since 2018 and just finished
	 its Run 3 of data collection\, has set out to improve the precision of the
	 BNL result from 540 ppb (parts-per-billion) to 140 ppb\, a four-fold impro
	vement requiring twenty times the statistics. With this improved precision\
	, if the experimentally-determined central value remains the same\, the ten
	sion would become greater than 7 sigma\, a strong indication of new physics
	. With this ambitious goal\, the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is set to 
	find out if this hint of physics of new physics persists or not.\n\nIn this
	 talk\, I will first describe what the muon magnetic anomaly is and provide
	 motivation for measuring its value as both a precision test of the SM as w
	ell as a search for new physics. I will then describe the measurement techn
	ique in general and go into detail of how the experiment at Fermilab is car
	rying out this technique. I’ll conclude the talk with remarks about the c
	urrent status of the experiment.\n\nSam Rosen - H. Pylori Flagella Motion\n
	\nAbstract: H. Pylori is a bacteria found in the viscoelastic gastric mucin
	. It is able to travel through this medium by raising the pH of the mucin\,
	 allowing it to enter the stomach and cause numerous health issues such as 
	stomach ulcers. While how H. Pylori increases the pH of mucin is well under
	stood\, how its flagella assist it in moving through mucin is not. By analy
	zing both H. Pylori wild-types and mutants\, we hope to better understand h
	ow exactly H. Pylori moves through stomach mucin.
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