Electroweak Radiative Effects and Hadronic Structure

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Who would not want to know the basic constituents of our world and the way they interact? Nuclear and particle physics studies exactly that. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, there are six types of quarks, six types of leptons, and corresponding anti-particles connected by four fundamental interactions. However, the recent evidence coming from neutrino oscillation, dark matter and dark energy, and quantum gravity showed that the 40-year old Standard Model may be incomplete, and that we may be at the threshold of a new theory and "New Physics". One way to look for possible signals of new physics is with high-precision experiments at lower energy which can provide indirect access to physics at multi-TeV scales and play an important complementary role to the Large Hadron Collider research program. This research requires both experimental and theoretical effort, and the new-generation experiments will need a new degree of precision from theory.