Name: GRANIT 2014
Start: 2014-03-02T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2014-03-07T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

lundi 3 mars
- 09:00 → 09:20
  
  Welcome 20m
  
  General informations
  
  Transparents
- 09:20 → 10:00
  
  Status of the GRANIT spectrometer 40m
  
  Orateur: Francis Vezzu (LPSC Grenoble)
  
  Transparents
- 10:00 → 10:20
  
  Commissionning of the UCN source for GRANIT 20m
  
  Orateur: Damien Roulier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble / Institut laue-Langevin, Grenoble)
  
  Transparents
- 10:20 → 10:40
  
  MonteCarlo simulations of the GRANIT UCN source and extraction system 20m
  
  Orateur: Benoit CLEMENT (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 10:40 → 11:00
  
  Analysis and design optimization of a rough neutron mirror 20m
  
  Orateur: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00 → 11:10
  
  coffee break 10m
- 11:10 → 11:50
  
  qBounce: Frequency's view on Newton's inverse square law of gravity 40m
  
  Orateur: Gunther Cronenberg (TU Wien)
  
  Minutes
  
  Transparents
- 11:50 → 12:30
  
  Observation of gravitational quantum states of ultracold neutrons and its derivation using the Wigner function 40m
  
  Orateur: Go Ichikawa (The University of Tokyo)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 17:20 → 18:00
  
  Neutron interferometry at NIST 40m
  
  Orateur: Dmitry Pushin (UNiv. Waterloo)
  
  Transparents
- 18:00 → 18:40
  
  Non-dispersive phase shifters in neutron interferometry 40m
  
  Orateur: Hartmut Lemmel (Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology)
  
  Transparents
mardi 4 mars
- 09:00 → 09:40
  
  Frequency shifts in gravity resonance spectroscopy 40m
  
  Orateur: Stefan Baeßler (University of Virginia)
  
  Transparents
- 09:40 → 10:00
  
  Excitation of transitions in GRANIT with time variation of magnetic field 20m
  
  Orateur: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 10:00 → 10:20
  
  Preparing a measurement of the charge of the free neutron with qBounce 20m
  
  Orateur: Hanno Filter (Atominstitut TU Wien)
  
  Transparents
- 10:20 → 11:00
  
  Helium UCN source in an external beam of thermal neutrons 40m
  
  Orateur: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00 → 11:10
  
  coffee break 10m
- 11:10 → 11:30
  
  UCN possibilities at the European Spallation Source 20m
  
  Orateur: Esben Klinkby (TU Denmark)
  
  Transparents
- 11:30 → 12:10
  
  Neutron optical measurements studying quantum mechanics 40m
  
  Orateur: Stephan Sponar (St.S)
  
  Transparents
- 12:10 → 12:30
  
  Verification of the weak equivalence principle with Laue diffracting neutrons 20m
  
  Orateur: Egor Vezhlev (PNPI)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  round table: UCN "zero barrier" and real time potition sensitive detectors
- 17:20 → 18:00
  
  Propagation of quantized ultracold neutrons in a narrow rough waveguide: application to GRANIT experiments 40m
  
  Orateur: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)
  
  Transparents
- 18:00 → 18:20
  
  Sizes of nanoparticles of impurity-helium gels: calculations and experimental results 20m
  
  Orateur: Victor Efimov (ISSP, Chernogolovka, Russia)
  
  Transparents
- 18:20 → 18:40
  
  Cascaded cooling of neutrons 20m
  
  Orateur: Oliver Zimmer (ILL Grenoble)
  
  Transparents
- 18:40 → 19:20
  
  Electroweak interactions after higgs discovery 40m
  
  Orateur: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)
  
  Transparents
mercredi 5 mars
- 09:00 → 09:40
  
  Implications of torsion-balance results for some speculations about exotic physics 40m
  
  Orateur: Eric Adelberger (University of Washington)
  
  Transparents
- 09:40 → 10:20
  
  Searches for possible exotic spin-dependent interactions using polarized nuclei 40m
  
  Orateur: William Snow (Indiana University)
  
  Transparents
- 10:20 → 10:40
  
  A measurement of short range spin dependent force using ultracold neutrons and a mercury magnetometer 20m
  
  Orateur: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (PSI)
  
  Transparents
- 10:40 → 11:00
  
  Constraints for short range forces from a 3He experiment 20m
  
  Orateur: Mathieu Guigue (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00 → 11:10
  
  coffee break 10m
- 11:10 → 11:50
  
  The most recent developments on non-commutative quantum mechanics 40m
  
  Orateur: Orfeu Bertolami (Instituto Superior Técnico, Departamento de Física)
  
  Transparents
- 11:50 → 12:10
  
  Gravity resonance spectroscopy constrains dark energy and dark matter scenarios 20m
  
  Orateur: Tobias Jenke (TU Wien)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  round table: UCN sources
- 18:00 → 18:20
  
  Quantum reflection of antihydrogen from the Casimir potential above matter slabs, including those of nano-porous materials 20m
  
  Orateur: Gabriel Dufour (LKB Paris)
  
  Transparents
- 18:20 → 19:00
  
  Gravitational measurements with cold positronium 40m
  
  Orateur: David Cassidi (UNiv. College London)
  
  Transparents
- 19:00 → 19:20
  
  Can we observe the gravitational quantum states of positronium 20m
  
  Orateur: Paolo Crivelli (ETH)
  
  Transparents
jeudi 6 mars
- 09:00 → 09:40
  
  Theoretical motivations for WIMPs, WISPs and new short range forces 40m
  
  Orateur: Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)
  
  Transparents
- 09:40 → 10:20
  
  Comparison of Casimir experiments with theory : an update 40m
  
  Orateur: Serge Reynaud (CNRS)
  
  Transparents
- 10:20 → 10:40
  
  A search for gravity-like short-range forces in a precision measurement of neutron scattering in Xenon gas 20m
  
  Orateur: Yoshio Kamiya (Univ. Tokyo)
  
  Transparents
- 10:40 → 11:00
  
  Bounds on new light particles from high-energy and very small momentum transfer n p elastic scattering data 20m
  
  Orateur: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00 → 11:10
  
  coffee break 10m
- 11:10 → 11:50
  
  Testing baryon number violation with neutrons 40m
  
  Orateur: Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. L'Aquila and LNGS)
  
  Transparents
- 11:50 → 12:10
  
  Probing chameleon scalar field with neutrons 20m
  
  Orateur: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 12:10 → 12:30
  
  Dark gravitational quantum states and their relation to galactic centre black holes and the X-ray emission of halos 20m
  
  Orateur: Allan Ernest (Charles Sturt University)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  round table: new physics with ultracold quantum systems
- 17:20 → 17:40
  
  Shaping the distribution of vertical velocities of antihydrogen in GBAR 20m
  
  Orateur: Gabriel Dufour (LKB)
  
  Transparents
- 17:40 → 18:20
  
  Gravitational quantum states of antihydrogen 40m
  
  Orateur: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)
  
  Transparents
- 18:20 → 18:40
  
  Spectroscopy of cold atomic hydrogen 20m
  
  Orateur: Nikolai Kolachevsky
  
  Transparents
- 18:40 → 19:20
  
  GBAR project 40m
  
  Orateur: PASCAL DEBU (CEA/IRFU)
  
  Transparents
vendredi 7 mars
- 09:20 → 10:00
  
  Electrical characterization and nano-scale surface morphology with Scanning Probe Microscopes 40m
  
  Orateur: Andrea Liscio (CNR-ISOF, Bologna)
  
  Transparents
- 10:00 → 10:20
  
  Quantum levitation of nanoparticles seen with ultracold neutrons 20m
  
  Orateur: Valery V. Nesvizhevsky (Institut Laue-Langevin)
  
  Transparents
- 10:20 → 10:40
  
  Theoretical description of the interaction of UCN with nanoparticles and nanodroplets at surface 20m
  
  Orateur: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)
  
  Transparents
- 10:40 → 11:00
  
  Measurement of small heating of UCN on FOmblin oil surface 20m
  
  Orateur: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00 → 11:10
  
  cofee break 10m
- 11:10 → 11:30
  
  Neutron whispering gallery 20m
  
  Orateur: Konstantin Protasov (Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology)
  
  Transparents
- 11:30 → 11:50
  
  Summary 20m
- 11:50 → 12:10
  
  Concluding remarks 20m