Name: ESS Science Symposium on Neutron Particle Physics at Long Pulse Spallation Sources
Start: 2013-03-25T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-03-27T18:00:00+01:00
Location: LPSC Grenoble

ESS Science Symposium on Neutron Particle Physics at Long Pulse Spallation Sources

from Monday, 25 March 2013 (08:00) to Wednesday, 27 March 2013 (18:00)

Monday, 25 March 2013

08:00 Registration

08:00 - 09:00
Room: Amphitheater
09:00 Welcome and Introduction
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Status of the European Spallation Source and the Instrument Selection Process - Richard Hall-Wilton (ESS AB)

09:30 The present status of particle physics with slow neutrons - Dirk Dubbers
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater
11:00 Physics case I
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

11:00 Fundamental Neutron Properties - William J. Marciano
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Amphitheater
13:30 Physics case II
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

13:30 Low-energy precision experiments in the age of the LHC - Adrian Signer

14:30 Fundamental Neutron Physics with Long-Pulsed Spallation Sources - William Snow
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Amphitheater
16:00 Beam experiments I
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

16:00 First results from the NPDGamma experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source - W. S. Wilburn

16:30 A Path to a 0.1s Neutron Lifetime Measurement Using the Beam Method - F. E. Wietfeldt

17:00 Neutron-decay correlation measurements with polarized and pulse beams - Tim Chupp

17:30 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Transformation at Fermilab Project X - Y. Kamyshkov
19:15 Conference Dinner

19:15 - 23:00
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
08:30 Beam experiments II, In-pile experiments
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

08:30 Measurements of Correlation Coefficients in Pulsed Neutron Beams - Bastian Märkisch

09:00 Neutron Beta Decay at the ESS – Beamline parameters and performance for a PERC-like instrument - C. Klauser

09:30 Ramsey Experiments using Neutron Beams - Florian M. Piegsa

10:00 Bound Beta-Decay: BoB - Josephine McAndrews
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater
11:00 Ultracold neutron sources I
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

11:00 Intense sources of ultra-cold neutrons at long pulse spallation sources - Mike Pendlebury

12:00 Spallation UCN production in He-II for nEDM measurement - Yasuhiro Masuda
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Amphitheater
14:00 Ultracold neutron sources II
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

14:00 The spallation-driven ultra-cold neutron source at Los Alamos National Lab - Saunders

14:30 Ultracold neutron production at the second spallation target of the Paul Scherrer Institute - Bernhard Lauss

15:00 Superfluid-helium ultracold neutron sources – concepts for the ESS? - Oliver Zimmer

15:30 Spallation-Driven Ultracold Neutron Sources: Concepts for a Next Generation Source - A. R. Young (North Carolina State University)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Amphitheater
16:30 ESS target station, Infrastructure requirements, Discussion
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

16:30 The ESS Target Station - Ferenc Mezei (ESS AB)

17:00 Infrastructure for next generation experiments with ultra-cold neutrons - Peter Fierlinger

17:30 Discussion
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
08:30 Gravity and short range forces
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

08:30 Neutron gravity experiments and tests of the Weak Equivalence Principle - A. I. Franck

09:00 Band Gap for Neutron due to non-Newtonian gravity-like force - K. Taketani

09:30 Probing Modified Gravity with Ultra Cold Neutrons - Philippe Brax

10:00 Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy within the qBounce experiment - Tobias Jenke
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater
11:00 Neutron Oscillations
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Amphitheater
Contributions

11:00 Neutron oscillations and its implications in physics and astrophysics - Zurab Berezhiani

11:30 Testing baryon number conservation in braneworld models at ESS - Michaël Sarrazin
12:00 Workshop summary
Workshop summary
12:00 - 12:45
Room: Amphitheater

12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Amphitheater

14:00 Visit ILL

14:00 - 16:00