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SUMMARY:The Odyssey of Charged Massive Spin-3/2 Fields
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Karim Benakli (LPTHE\, Sorbonne University)\n\nAbstr
 act: The relativistic propagation of massive charged higher-spin particle
 s\, starting with spin 3/2 and spin 2\, has been a longstanding problem\, 
 with roots in Dirac’s early work and motivations in 1936. I will briefly
  review the main obstacles encountered over the decades in attempts to con
 struct consistent theories for such fields. I will then describe recent pr
 ogress in formulating effective equations of motion in external electromag
 netic and gravitational backgrounds\, and explain how gravity imposes addi
 tional consistency conditions that strongly constrain the allowed coupling
 s. Biography: Professor Karim Benakli began his research career at Écol
 e Polytechnique\, where he obtained his PhD in 1994. He is a permanent CNR
 S researcher at Sorbonne University\, investigating different aspects of p
 hysics beyond the Standard Model. Alternative online link: https://meeti
 ng.tencent.com/dm/ayfjngrkxwMLID:184946546\n\nhttps://indico-tdli.sjtu.edu
 .cn/event/5036/
LOCATION:Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/N4F-N400 - meeting room (Tsung-Dao Lee In
 stitute)
URL:https://indico-tdli.sjtu.edu.cn/event/5036/
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