GRANIT 2010

Europe/Paris
Ecole de Physique des Houches

Ecole de Physique des Houches

La Côte des Chavants - 74310 Les Houches - FRANCE
Description
Workshop on experimental and theoretical approaches to quantum states of neutrons in gravitational field. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the scientific program with new GRANIT spectrometer in a broad context of behavior of ultracold neutrons (UCN) in gravitational field in GRANIT and in alternative experiments, as well as applications of this phenomenon/spectrometer to various domains of physics, ranging from short-range interactions to neutron quantum optics and reflectometry using UCN. Topics will be the scientific issues, instrumental and methodical developments, alternative methods, new ideas. It is a follow-up for the GRANIT-2006 Workshop (http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/congres/granit06/index.php), and preceding Annual meetings of the collaboration on measurement of the quantum states of neutrons in the gravitational field. The registration fee will be payed in "Les Houches" by credit card (no american express), cheque or in cash (cost : 450 euros) Organizing Committee Stefan Baessler, University of Virginia, USA Orfeu Bertolami, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal Dirk Dubbers, Heidelberg University, Germany Alexander Meyerovich, University of Rhode Island, USA Valery Nesvizhevsky, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France Konstantin Protasov, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, France Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg, PSI, Switzeland Serge Reynaud, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France
Description of the GRANIT spectrometer
photos of participants
Participants
  • Abdellah Fourtassi
  • Alexander Frank
  • Alexander Mietke
  • Alexander Petukhov
  • Alexander Strelkov
  • Alexei Gagarski
  • Alexei Voronin
  • Alexey Muzychka
  • Allan Ernest
  • Boris Toperverg
  • Bruno Guerard
  • Dirk Dubbers
  • Dominique Rebreyend
  • Egor Lychagin
  • Fabrice Naraghi
  • Falery Fedorov
  • Francis Vezzu
  • German Kulin
  • Guillaume Pignol
  • Hans Borner
  • Hartmut Lemmel
  • Helmut Rauch
  • Ignatios Antoniadis
  • Jan Jakubek
  • Javier Redondo
  • Kaoru Taketani
  • Kirill Zhernenkov
  • Konstantin Protasov
  • Leonid P. Mezhov-Deglin
  • Marco Finazzi
  • Mathieu Beau
  • Matthew Collins
  • Matthias Büchner
  • michael doser
  • Michael Jentschel
  • Michael Kreuz
  • Nazario MORGADO
  • Orfeu Bertolami
  • Philippe Coulomb
  • Robert S Whitney
  • Serge REYNAUD
  • Seth Hoedl
  • Stefan Baeßler
  • Temur Enik
  • Tessa Charles
  • Thomas Bourdel
  • Torsten Soldner
  • Valery V. Nesvizhevsky
  • Victor Ezhov
  • Vladimir Gudkov
  • Vladimir Kurlov
  • Vladimir Voronin
  • Yury Sobolev
    • 09:00 09:20
      Welcome/Introduction 20m
      Orateur: NN
    • 09:20 10:00
      Infrastructure for GRANIT at the ILL 40m
      Orateur: M. Kreuz
      Slides
    • 10:00 10:40
      GRANIT spectrometer 40m
      Orateur: F. Vezzu
      Slides
    • 10:40 11:00
      Mirrors for GRANIT, production, characterization 20m
      Orateur: N. Morgado
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:10
      break 10m
    • 11:10 11:30
      Transitions between quantum states caused by vibration noise 20m
      Orateur: K. Protasov
      Slides
    • 11:30 12:10
      Analysis of storage times of UCN in gravitational quantum states 40m
      Orateur: G. Pignol
      Slides
    • 12:10 12:30
      Theory of interaction of UCN in quantum states with absorber 20m
      Orateur: A. Voronin
      Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      lunch 1h
    • 17:20 17:40
      Magnetically-induced transitions between quantum states 20m
      Orateur: S. Baessler
      Slides
    • 17:40 18:00
      On feasibility of mechanically-induced transitions between quantum states 20m
      Slides
    • 18:00 18:20
      On preparation and analysis of gravitational quantum states in a flow-through mode 20m
      Orateur: M. Beau
      Slides
    • 18:20 18:40
      Sapphire shaped crystals 20m
      Orateur: V. Kurlov
      Slides
    • 09:00 09:20
      Nuclear-track position-sensitive detectors of UCN with 1 micrometer resolution 20m
      Orateur: A. Gagarski
      Slides
    • 09:20 09:40
      Measurements of neutron wave functions in quantum states 20m
      Slides
    • 09:40 10:00
      Low-background counters of ultracold neutrons 20m
      Orateur: A. Strelkov
      Slides
    • 10:00 10:20
      Large-size real-time position-sensitive detectors with 100 micrometer resolution 20m
      Orateur: A. Muzychka
      Slides
    • 10:20 11:00
      Real-time position-sensitive detection and spectroscopy (TOF) of ultracold neutrons with micrometric resolution 40m
      Orateur: J. Jakubek
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:10
      break 10m
    • 11:10 11:50
      Elastic and inelastic scattering of ultracold neutrons in DWBA 40m
      Orateur: B. Toperverg
      Slides
    • 11:50 12:10
      Time-resolved reflectometry with MIEZE principle 20m
      Orateur: B. Zhernenkov
      Slides
    • 12:10 12:30
      A new concept to extract and collimate UCN without losing phase-space density 20m
      Orateur: A. Mietke
      Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      round-table discussion on Choice of UCN detector(s) for GRANIT; and on UCN reflectometry option 1h 30m
    • 17:20 18:00
      Nanoparticle reflectors for cold and very cold neutrons 40m
      Orateur: E. Lychagin
      Slides
    • 18:00 18:20
      Optimization of ILL vertical cold neutron source 20m
      Orateur: Y. Calzavara
      Slides
    • 18:20 18:40
      Reflectors for GRANIT source of ultracold neutrons 20m
      Slides
    • 18:40 19:20
      Impurity quantum gels in superfluid He-II 40m
      Orateur: L. Mezhov-Deglin
      Slides
    • 09:00 09:40
      Theoretical motivations for short-range interactions 40m
      Orateur: I. Antoniadis
      Slides
    • 09:40 10:20
      Constraints for short-range forces from Casimir experiments 40m
      Slides
    • 10:20 11:00
      Dispersive atom interferometry phase shifts due to atom-surface interactions 40m
      Orateur: M. Buchner
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:10
      break 10m
    • 11:10 11:50
      GRANIT constraints for Standard Model extentions. Non-commutative quantum mechanics 40m
      Orateur: O. Bertolami
      Slides
    • 11:50 12:10
      Axion-like interactions 20m
      Slides
    • 12:10 12:30
      Constraints for spin-dependent short-range forces from GRANIT 20m
      Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      round-table discussion on UCN source developments 1h 30m
    • 17:40 18:20
      A torsion pendulum based searches for axions and exotic forces 40m
      Orateur: S. Hoedl
      Slides
    • 18:20 18:40
      Constraints for spin-dependent short-range forces from storage of polarized 3He 20m
      Orateur: A. Petukhov
      Slides
    • 18:40 19:20
      Search for spin-dependent short-range forces in 3He/129Xe clock comparison experiment 40m
      Orateur: Yu. Sobolev
      Slides
    • 09:00 09:20
      Constraints for short-range forces from neutron experiments 20m
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    • 09:20 09:40
      Constraints for spin-dependent interactions from neutron-EDM experiments 20m
      Slides
    • 09:40 10:00
      Test of the equivalence principle with ultracold neutrons 20m
      Orateur: G. Kulin
      Slides
    • 10:00 10:20
      Eotvisch-type experiment with cold neutrons 20m
      Orateur: V. Voronin
      Slides
    • 10:20 10:40
      Neutron diffraction constraint on spin-dependent short-range interaction 20m
      Orateur: V. Fedorov
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:10
      break 10m
    • 11:10 11:30
      Measuring the gravitational interaction of antihydrogen with AEGIS 20m
      Orateur: M. Doser
      Slides
    • 11:30 11:50
      Gravitational quantum states of ultracold anti-hydrogen above material surface 20m
      Slides
    • 11:50 12:30
      The properties of naturally occuring gravitational quantum states 40m
      Orateur: A. Ernest
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    • 12:30 13:30
      lunch 1h
    • 13:30 15:00
      round-table discussion on Theoretical expectations for short-range interactions and sensitivity of different methods 1h 30m
    • 17:20 18:00
      A quantum trampoline for ultra-cold atoms 40m
      Orateur: Th. Bourdel
    • 18:00 18:40
      Storage of ultracold neutrons in gravito-magnetic trap 40m
      Orateur: V. Ezhov
      Slides
    • 18:40 19:00
      Should we measure (lambda v) ? 20m
      Orateur: M. Jentschel
    • 19:00 19:20
      Problems to measure confinement-induced neutron phases 20m
      Orateur: H. Lemmel
      Slides
    • 09:20 10:00
      Experimental observation of a photon bouncing ball 40m
      Orateur: M. Finazzi
      Slides
    • 10:00 10:20
      Quantum revivals 20m
      Orateur: R. Whitney
      Slides
    • 10:20 11:00
      Observation of centrifugal quantum states of neutrons 40m
      Orateur: V. Nesvizhevsky
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:10
      break 10m
    • 11:10 11:50
      Theoretical description of the centrifugal quantum states of neutrons and their sensitivity to short-range interactions 40m
      Slides
    • 11:50 12:10
      CONCLUDING REMARKS 20m