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

25 Mar 2013, 08:00 → 27 Mar 2013, 18:00 Europe/Paris

Amphitheater (LPSC Grenoble)

Monday 25 March

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:30 Welcome and Introduction

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Status of the European Spallation Source and the Instrument Selection Process

Speaker: Dr Richard Hall-Wilton (ESS AB)

Transparents 130325_SS_FP_RJHW.pdf

09:30 The present status of particle physics with slow neutrons

Speaker: Dirk Dubbers

Transparents Grenoble_ESS_2013.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Physics case I

11:00 Fundamental Neutron Properties

Speaker: William J. Marciano

Transparents Grenoble.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:30 Physics case II

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

Speaker: Adrian Signer

Transparents 31_Signer.pdf

14:30 Fundamental Neutron Physics with Long-Pulsed Spallation Sources

Speaker: William Snow

Transparents 32_Snow.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 Beam experiments I

16:00 First results from the NPDGamma experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source

Speaker: W. S. Wilburn

Transparents 41_Wilburn.pdf

16:30 A Path to a 0.1s Neutron Lifetime Measurement Using the Beam Method

Speaker: F. E. Wietfeldt

Transparents 42_Wietfeld.pdf

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

Speaker: Tim Chupp

Transparents 43_Chupp.pdf

17:30 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Transformation at Fermilab Project X

Speaker: Y. Kamyshkov

Transparents 44_Kamyshkov.pdf

19:15 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Transport by coach "PHILIBERT"
19:15 Departure from LPSC
19:35 Departure in front of Hotel Terminus opposite to the railwail station

20:00 Dinner in the Restaurant "La Corne d'Or"
159 route Chartreuse
38700 Corenc
Tel 04.38.86.62.36

about 23:00 arrival in Grenoble

Tuesday 26 March

08:30 → 10:30 Beam experiments II, In-pile experiments

08:30 Measurements of Correlation Coefficients in Pulsed Neutron Beams

Speaker: Bastian Märkisch

Transparents 51_Maerkisch.pdf

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

Speaker: C. Klauser

Transparents 52_Klauser.pptx

09:30 Ramsey Experiments using Neutron Beams

Speaker: Florian M. Piegsa

Transparents 53_Piegsa.pdf

10:00 Bound Beta-Decay: BoB

Speaker: Josephine McAndrews

Transparents 54_McAndrews.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Ultracold neutron sources I

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

Speaker: Mike Pendlebury

Transparents Pendlebury.pdf

12:00 Spallation UCN production in He-II for nEDM measurement

Speaker: Yasuhiro Masuda

Transparents 73_Masuda.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 Ultracold neutron sources II

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

Speaker: Saunders

Transparents 71_Saunders.pptx

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

Speaker: Bernhard Lauss

Transparents 72_Lauss.pptx

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

Speaker: Oliver Zimmer

Transparents 73_Zimmer.pdf

15:30 Spallation-Driven Ultracold Neutron Sources: Concepts for a Next Generation Source

Speaker: A. R. Young (North Carolina State University)

Transparents 74_Young.ppt

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 ESS target station, Infrastructure requirements, Discussion

16:30 The ESS Target Station

Speaker: Ferenc Mezei (ESS AB)

Transparents 81_Mezei.pptx

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

Speaker: Peter Fierlinger

17:30 Discussion

Concepts and Requirements for ultracold neutron source Requirements for cold neutron beam line Requirements for through-going beam port

Transparents 83_Greene.pdf 84_Soldner.pptx

Wednesday 27 March

08:30 → 10:30 Gravity and short range forces

08:30 Neutron gravity experiments and tests of the Weak Equivalence Principle

Speaker: A. I. Franck

Transparents 91_Frank.ppt

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

Speaker: K. Taketani

Transparents 92_Taketani.pdf

09:30 Probing Modified Gravity with Ultra Cold Neutrons

Speaker: Philippe Brax

Transparents 93_Brax.pdf

10:00 Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy within the qBounce experiment

Speaker: Tobias Jenke

Transparents 94_Jenke.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Neutron Oscillations

11:00 Neutron oscillations and its implications in physics and astrophysics

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani

Transparents 101_Berezhiani.pdf

11:30 Testing baryon number conservation in braneworld models at ESS

Speaker: Michaël Sarrazin

Transparents 102_Sarrazin.pdf

12:00 → 12:45 Workshop summary

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 Visit ILL