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

Registration

Welcome and Introduction

1 Welcome

2 Status of the European Spallation Source and the Instrument Selection Process

Speaker: Dr Richard Hall-Wilton (ESS AB)

Transparents 130325_SS_FP_RJHW.pdf

3 The present status of particle physics with slow neutrons

Speaker: Dirk Dubbers

Transparents Grenoble_ESS_2013.ppt

10:30 Coffee break

Physics case I

4 Fundamental Neutron Properties

Speaker: William J. Marciano

Transparents Grenoble.pdf

12:00 Lunch break

Physics case II

5 Low-energy precision experiments in the age of the LHC

Speaker: Adrian Signer

Transparents 31_Signer.pdf

6 Fundamental Neutron Physics with Long-Pulsed Spallation Sources

Speaker: William Snow

Transparents 32_Snow.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

Beam experiments I

7 First results from the NPDGamma experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source

Speaker: W. S. Wilburn

Transparents 41_Wilburn.pdf

8 A Path to a 0.1s Neutron Lifetime Measurement Using the Beam Method

Speaker: F. E. Wietfeldt

Transparents 42_Wietfeld.pdf

9 Neutron-decay correlation measurements with polarized and pulse beams

Speaker: Tim Chupp

Transparents 43_Chupp.pdf

10 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Transformation at Fermilab Project X

Speaker: Y. Kamyshkov

Transparents 44_Kamyshkov.pdf

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

Beam experiments II, In-pile experiments

11 Measurements of Correlation Coefficients in Pulsed Neutron Beams

Speaker: Bastian Märkisch

Transparents 51_Maerkisch.pdf

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

Speaker: C. Klauser

Transparents 52_Klauser.pptx

13 Ramsey Experiments using Neutron Beams

Speaker: Florian M. Piegsa

Transparents 53_Piegsa.pdf

14 Bound Beta-Decay: BoB

Speaker: Josephine McAndrews

Transparents 54_McAndrews.pptx

10:30 Coffee break

Ultracold neutron sources I

15 Intense sources of ultra-cold neutrons at long pulse spallation sources

Speaker: Mike Pendlebury

Transparents Pendlebury.pdf

16 Spallation UCN production in He-II for nEDM measurement

Speaker: Yasuhiro Masuda

Transparents 73_Masuda.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

Ultracold neutron sources II

17 The spallation-driven ultra-cold neutron source at Los Alamos National Lab

Speaker: Saunders

Transparents 71_Saunders.pptx

18 Ultracold neutron production at the second spallation target of the Paul Scherrer Institute

Speaker: Bernhard Lauss

Transparents 72_Lauss.pptx

19 Superfluid-helium ultracold neutron sources – concepts for the ESS?

Speaker: Oliver Zimmer

Transparents 73_Zimmer.pdf

20 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 Coffee break

ESS target station, Infrastructure requirements, Discussion

21 The ESS Target Station

Speaker: Ferenc Mezei (ESS AB)

Transparents 81_Mezei.pptx

22 Infrastructure for next generation experiments with ultra-cold neutrons

Speaker: Peter Fierlinger

23 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

Gravity and short range forces

24 Neutron gravity experiments and tests of the Weak Equivalence Principle

Speaker: A. I. Franck

Transparents 91_Frank.ppt

25 Band Gap for Neutron due to non-Newtonian gravity-like force

Speaker: K. Taketani

Transparents 92_Taketani.pdf

26 Probing Modified Gravity with Ultra Cold Neutrons

Speaker: Philippe Brax

Transparents 93_Brax.pdf

27 Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy within the qBounce experiment

Speaker: Tobias Jenke

Transparents 94_Jenke.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Neutron Oscillations

28 Neutron oscillations and its implications in physics and astrophysics

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani

Transparents 101_Berezhiani.pdf

29 Testing baryon number conservation in braneworld models at ESS

Speaker: Michaël Sarrazin

Transparents 102_Sarrazin.pdf

30 Workshop summary

12:45 Lunch break

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