Name: nEDM2021
Start: 2021-02-14T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-02-19T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Les Houches School of Physics

Monday, 15 February 2021

09:55 Welcome: Welcome to the nEDM2021 mini-school
Welcome to the nEDM2021 mini-school
09:55 - 10:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
10:00 Cosmological motivations to search for the nEDM - Laura Covi
Cosmological motivations to search for the nEDM
- Laura Covi
10:00 - 12:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
13:55 Welcome: Welcome
Welcome
13:55 - 14:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
14:00 Overview: Overview
Overview
14:00 - 16:10
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

14:00 The LANL nEDM Experiment - Timothy Chupp

14:40 Prospects towards a neutron EDM measurement with an advanced ultracold neutron source at TRIUMF - Takashi Higuchi

15:10 Overview of the nEDM@SNS project - Wolfgang Korsch

15:40 panEDM Experiment Status and Overview - Hanno Filter
16:10 Coffee time
Coffee time
16:10 - 16:40
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
16:40 Overview: Overview
Overview
16:40 - 18:10
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

16:40 Design of the n2EDM experiment - Vira Bondar

17:10 Source of UCN using superfluid helium at the PIK reactor of PNPI NRC KI - Anatolii Serebrov

17:40 Neutron BeamEDM Experiment - Jacob Thorne
20:00 Overview: Overview
Overview
20:00 - 21:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

20:00 A New Limit on the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment - Nicholas Ayres

20:30 Search for CP violation in nuclear beta decay - Pierre Delahaye
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
10:30 Effective theories beyond the SM - Adam Falkowski
Effective theories beyond the SM
- Adam Falkowski
10:30 - 12:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
14:00 E-field and precession chamber: E-field and precession chamber
E-field and precession chamber
14:00 - 15:50
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

14:00 A study of liquid helium scintillation in the presence of an electric field for the nEDM@SNS experiment - Takeyasu Ito

14:30 High Electric Field Studies in Liquid Helium for the nEDM@SNS Experiment - Grant Riley

14:50 Understanding electrical breakdown in liquid helium through analysis of the distribution of breakdown fields - Nguyen Phan

15:10 Electrodes for a Cryogenic Cavallo Apparatus - Marie Blatnik

15:30 Design, testing, and characterization of the helium-3 removal system - Christian White
15:50 Coffee time
Coffee time
15:50 - 16:20
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
16:20 E-field and precession chamber: E-field and precession chamber
E-field and precession chamber
16:20 - 18:20
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

16:20 Impact of Cell Charging on Cryogenic EDM Searches - Wolfgang Korsch

16:40 TUCAN EDM central region - Ruediger Picker

17:10 PanEDM central components - David Wurm

17:30 UCN storage in deuterated polyethylene bottle - Thomas Neulinger

17:50 Cryogenic UCN storage, super-thermal production, and live spin analysis for measurements of static nEDMs, oscillating EDMs, and the neutron magnetic moment - Kent Leung
20:00 E-field and precession chamber: E-Field and precession chamber
E-Field and precession chamber
20:00 - 20:40
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

20:00 Systematics and Operational Studies for the nEDM@SNS Experiment - Adam Dipert

20:20 Johnson-Nyquist Noise Studies for the n2EDM Experiment at PSI - Pin-Jung Chiu
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
10:30 Fundamentals of neutron EDM experiments - Dieter Ries
Fundamentals of neutron EDM experiments
- Dieter Ries
10:30 - 12:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
14:00 UCN Source and UCN transport: UCN Source and UCN transport
UCN Source and UCN transport
14:00 - 16:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

14:00 Overview of the new UCN facility at TRIUMF - Florian Kuchler

14:20 Time-dependent thermal modeling for the TUCAN source - Jeffery Martin

14:40 Optimizing the performance of a spallation-driven ultracold-neutron source with deuterium and superfluid-helium moderators - Wolfgang Schreyer

15:00 Nickel-Phosphorus Coating Challenges of the TUCAN UCN source - Russell Mammei

15:20 Development of a Helium-3 Cryostat for the TRIUMF Ultra-Cold Advanced Neutron Source - Shinsuke Kawasaki

15:40 Performance measurement of ultracold neutron guides at J-PARC for a neutron EDM experiment in TRIUMF - Sohei Imajo
16:00 Coffee time
Coffee time
16:00 - 16:30
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
16:30 UCN Source and UCN transport: UCN Source and UCN transport
UCN Source and UCN transport
16:30 - 17:30
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

16:30 Ultra cold neutron transport for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Search at Los Alamos National Laboratory - Douglas Wong

16:50 Measurement of Neutron Polarization and Transmission for the nEDM@SNS Experiment. - Kavish Imam

17:10 PSI UCN source - Ingo Rienäcker
17:30 Detector and DaQ
17:30 - 18:30
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

17:30 Characterization of the ultra-cold neutron gaseous detector in the n2EDM project - William Saenz Arevalo

17:50 Supervisory control and data acquisition system for the n2edm experiment - Jochen Krempel
20:00 Simulations: Simulations
Simulations
20:00 - 21:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

20:00 The MCUCN simulation model for the n2EDM experiment at PSI - Geza Zsigmond

20:20 Simulation of the nEDM experiment at the PIK reactor - Alexey Fomin

20:40 UCN simulations for tauSPECT using Kassiopeia - Christian Schmidt
Thursday, 18 February 2021
10:30 CP violation in EFT - Adam Falkowski
CP violation in EFT
- Adam Falkowski
10:30 - 12:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
14:00 Magnetometry: Magnetometry
Magnetometry
14:00 - 16:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

14:00 The magnetometer system planned for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment at LANL - Yi (Jennie) Chen

14:20 Magnetometry for the Los Alamos National Laboratory's nEDM experiment - Felicity Hills

14:40 Laser-based comagnetometry for the TUCAN nEDM measurement - Eric Miller

15:00 Optical magnetometry for the TUCAN nEDM experiment - Wolfgang Klassen

15:20 Mercury comagnetometer: the light shift - Selim Touati

15:40 The caesium magnetometer array for the n2EDM experiment - Duarte Pais
16:00 Coffee time
Coffee time
16:00 - 16:30
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
16:30 Magnetometry: Magnetometry
Magnetometry
16:30 - 18:30
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

16:30 3He Polarization and Injection System for the nEDM@SNS SOS apparatus - Thomas Rao

16:50 Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) for magnetic field detection : noise measurements - Matthew Morano

17:10 Development of a polarized 3He atomic beam source for the nEDM@SNS experiment - Mark Broering

17:30 nEDM@SNS Light Collection System - Vince Cianciolo

17:50 Measurement Cell and Light Collection System Simulations for the nEDM@SNS experiment - Devon Loomis

18:10 Magnetic field mapping in n2EDM experiment - Kseniia Svirina
20:00 Time stability studies
20:00 - 21:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

20:00 n2EDM shield - Georg Bison

20:20 Next Generation Active Magnetic Shielding for n2EDM - Solange Emmenegger

20:40 Time stability of an external holding field inside a superconducting mesh. - Christopher Crawford
Friday, 19 February 2021
14:00 Systematics and sensivity studies: Systematics and sensitivity studies
Systematics and sensitivity studies
14:00 - 16:10
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

14:00 Systematic effects studies at the Systematic and Operational Studies apparatus (SOS@PULSTAR) - Christopher Swank

14:30 Studies of nEDM Systematics from Collective Rotational Motion of Neutrons - Sean Vanbergen

14:50 Classical Derivation of Berry’s Phase for Spin-½ particle - Cole Teander

15:10 Magic field option to cancel the mercury-induced false neutron EDM - Thomas Bouillaud

15:30 Systematic effect studies for dressed spins - Raymond Tat

15:50 Improving the statistical sensitivity of the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TRIUMF - Steve Sidhu
16:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
16:40 B-Field production
16:40 - 18:20
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

16:40 Magnetic Field System in the nEDM experiment at the SNS - Alina Aleksandrova

17:00 Creation of a superconducting switch to close the B0 coil in the nEDM@SNS experiment - Clark Hickman

17:20 Magnetic Shim Coils for the TUCAN nEDM Experiment - Mark McCrea

17:40 B0 Magnetic Field Coil Design and Fabrication for the LANL nEDM Experiment - Jared Brewington

18:00 Magnetic Gradient Amelioration for nEDM@LANL - Austin Reid
20:00 Closing: Closing
Closing
20:00 - 21:00
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

20:00 Closing - Skyler DEGENKOLB

20:15 Highlights - Chen-Yu Liu