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

nEDM2021

from Sunday, February 14, 2021 (12:00 PM) to Friday, February 19, 2021 (9:00 PM)

Monday, February 8, 2021
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Friday, February 12, 2021
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Monday, February 15, 2021

9:55 AM Welcome to the nEDM2021 mini-school
Welcome to the nEDM2021 mini-school
9:55 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
10:00 AM Cosmological motivations to search for the nEDM - Laura Covi
Cosmological motivations to search for the nEDM
- Laura Covi
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
1:55 PM Welcome
Welcome
1:55 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
2:00 PM Overview
Overview
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

2:00 PM The LANL nEDM Experiment - Timothy Chupp

2:40 PM Prospects towards a neutron EDM measurement with an advanced ultracold neutron source at TRIUMF - Takashi Higuchi

3:10 PM Overview of the nEDM@SNS project - Wolfgang Korsch

3:40 PM panEDM Experiment Status and Overview - Hanno Filter
4:10 PM Coffee time
Coffee time
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
4:40 PM Overview
Overview
4:40 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

4:40 PM Design of the n2EDM experiment - Vira Bondar

5:10 PM Source of UCN using superfluid helium at the PIK reactor of PNPI NRC KI - Anatolii Serebrov

5:40 PM Neutron BeamEDM Experiment - Jacob Thorne
8:00 PM Overview
Overview
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

8:00 PM A New Limit on the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment - Nicholas Ayres

8:30 PM Search for CP violation in nuclear beta decay - Pierre Delahaye
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
10:30 AM Effective theories beyond the SM - Adam Falkowski
Effective theories beyond the SM
- Adam Falkowski
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
2:00 PM E-field and precession chamber
E-field and precession chamber
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

2:00 PM A study of liquid helium scintillation in the presence of an electric field for the nEDM@SNS experiment - Takeyasu Ito

2:30 PM High Electric Field Studies in Liquid Helium for the nEDM@SNS Experiment - Grant Riley

2:50 PM Understanding electrical breakdown in liquid helium through analysis of the distribution of breakdown fields - Nguyen Phan

3:10 PM Electrodes for a Cryogenic Cavallo Apparatus - Marie Blatnik

3:30 PM Design, testing, and characterization of the helium-3 removal system - Christian White
3:50 PM Coffee time
Coffee time
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
4:20 PM E-field and precession chamber
E-field and precession chamber
4:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

4:20 PM Impact of Cell Charging on Cryogenic EDM Searches - Wolfgang Korsch

4:40 PM TUCAN EDM central region - Ruediger Picker

5:10 PM PanEDM central components - David Wurm

5:30 PM UCN storage in deuterated polyethylene bottle - Thomas Neulinger

5:50 PM Cryogenic UCN storage, super-thermal production, and live spin analysis for measurements of static nEDMs, oscillating EDMs, and the neutron magnetic moment - Kent Leung
8:00 PM E-Field and precession chamber
E-Field and precession chamber
8:00 PM - 8:40 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

8:00 PM Systematics and Operational Studies for the nEDM@SNS Experiment - Adam Dipert

8:20 PM Johnson-Nyquist Noise Studies for the n2EDM Experiment at PSI - Pin-Jung Chiu
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
10:30 AM Fundamentals of neutron EDM experiments - Dieter Ries
Fundamentals of neutron EDM experiments
- Dieter Ries
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
2:00 PM UCN Source and UCN transport
UCN Source and UCN transport
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

2:00 PM Overview of the new UCN facility at TRIUMF - Florian Kuchler

2:20 PM Time-dependent thermal modeling for the TUCAN source - Jeffery Martin

2:40 PM Optimizing the performance of a spallation-driven ultracold-neutron source with deuterium and superfluid-helium moderators - Wolfgang Schreyer

3:00 PM Nickel-Phosphorus Coating Challenges of the TUCAN UCN source - Russell Mammei

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

3:40 PM Performance measurement of ultracold neutron guides at J-PARC for a neutron EDM experiment in TRIUMF - Sohei Imajo
4:00 PM Coffee time
Coffee time
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
4:30 PM UCN Source and UCN transport
UCN Source and UCN transport
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

4:30 PM Ultra cold neutron transport for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Search at Los Alamos National Laboratory - Douglas Wong

4:50 PM Measurement of Neutron Polarization and Transmission for the nEDM@SNS Experiment. - Kavish Imam

5:10 PM PSI UCN source - Ingo Rienäcker
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

5:30 PM Characterization of the ultra-cold neutron gaseous detector in the n2EDM project - William Saenz Arevalo

5:50 PM Supervisory control and data acquisition system for the n2edm experiment - Jochen Krempel
8:00 PM Simulations
Simulations
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

8:00 PM The MCUCN simulation model for the n2EDM experiment at PSI - Geza Zsigmond

8:20 PM Simulation of the nEDM experiment at the PIK reactor - Alexey Fomin

8:40 PM UCN simulations for tauSPECT using Kassiopeia - Christian Schmidt
Thursday, February 18, 2021
10:30 AM CP violation in EFT - Adam Falkowski
CP violation in EFT
- Adam Falkowski
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
2:00 PM Magnetometry
Magnetometry
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

2:00 PM The magnetometer system planned for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment at LANL - Yi (Jennie) Chen

2:20 PM Magnetometry for the Los Alamos National Laboratory's nEDM experiment - Felicity Hills

2:40 PM Laser-based comagnetometry for the TUCAN nEDM measurement - Eric Miller

3:00 PM Optical magnetometry for the TUCAN nEDM experiment - Wolfgang Klassen

3:20 PM Mercury comagnetometer: the light shift - Selim Touati

3:40 PM The caesium magnetometer array for the n2EDM experiment - Duarte Pais
4:00 PM Coffee time
Coffee time
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
4:30 PM Magnetometry
Magnetometry
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

4:30 PM 3He Polarization and Injection System for the nEDM@SNS SOS apparatus - Thomas Rao

4:50 PM Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) for magnetic field detection : noise measurements - Matthew Morano

5:10 PM Development of a polarized 3He atomic beam source for the nEDM@SNS experiment - Mark Broering

5:30 PM nEDM@SNS Light Collection System - Vince Cianciolo

5:50 PM Measurement Cell and Light Collection System Simulations for the nEDM@SNS experiment - Devon Loomis

6:10 PM Magnetic field mapping in n2EDM experiment - Kseniia Svirina
8:00 PM
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

8:00 PM n2EDM shield - Georg Bison

8:20 PM Next Generation Active Magnetic Shielding for n2EDM - Solange Emmenegger

8:40 PM Time stability of an external holding field inside a superconducting mesh. - Christopher Crawford
Friday, February 19, 2021
2:00 PM Systematics and sensitivity studies
Systematics and sensitivity studies
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

2:00 PM Systematic effects studies at the Systematic and Operational Studies apparatus (SOS@PULSTAR) - Christopher Swank

2:30 PM Studies of nEDM Systematics from Collective Rotational Motion of Neutrons - Sean Vanbergen

2:50 PM Classical Derivation of Berry’s Phase for Spin-½ particle - Cole Teander

3:10 PM Magic field option to cancel the mercury-induced false neutron EDM - Thomas Bouillaud

3:30 PM Systematic effect studies for dressed spins - Raymond Tat

3:50 PM Improving the statistical sensitivity of the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TRIUMF - Steve Sidhu
4:10 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
4:40 PM
4:40 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

4:40 PM Magnetic Field System in the nEDM experiment at the SNS - Alina Aleksandrova

5:00 PM Creation of a superconducting switch to close the B0 coil in the nEDM@SNS experiment - Clark Hickman

5:20 PM Magnetic Shim Coils for the TUCAN nEDM Experiment - Mark McCrea

5:40 PM B0 Magnetic Field Coil Design and Fabrication for the LANL nEDM Experiment - Jared Brewington

6:00 PM Magnetic Gradient Amelioration for nEDM@LANL - Austin Reid
8:00 PM Closing
Closing
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: FRANCE - 74 310 LES HOUCHES
Contributions

8:00 PM Closing - Skyler DEGENKOLB

8:15 PM Highlights - Chen-Yu Liu