GRANIT 2014

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)

2 Mar 2014, 16:00 → 7 Mar 2014, 16:00 Europe/Paris

Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

La Côte des Chavants - 74310 Les Houches - FRANCE

Description

Workshop on quantum gravitational spectroscopy with ultracold systems, 3^rd one in a series of our GRANIT Workshops.

Support

nesvizhevsky@ill.fr

Participants

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Monday 3 March
- Mon 3 Mar
- Tue 4 Mar
- Wed 5 Mar
- Thu 6 Mar
- Fri 7 Mar
- 1
  
  Welcome
  
  General informations
  
  Transparents
- 2
  
  Status of the GRANIT spectrometer
  
  Speaker: Francis Vezzu (LPSC Grenoble)
  
  Transparents
- 3
  
  Commissionning of the UCN source for GRANIT
  
  Speaker: Damien Roulier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble / Institut laue-Langevin, Grenoble)
  
  Transparents
- 4
  
  MonteCarlo simulations of the GRANIT UCN source and extraction system
  
  Speaker: Benoit CLEMENT (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 5
  
  Analysis and design optimization of a rough neutron mirror
  
  Speaker: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00
  
  coffee break
- 6
  
  qBounce: Frequency's view on Newton's inverse square law of gravity
  
  Speaker: Gunther Cronenberg (TU Wien)
  
  Minutes
  
  Transparents
- 7
  
  Observation of gravitational quantum states of ultracold neutrons and its derivation using the Wigner function
  
  Speaker: Go Ichikawa (The University of Tokyo)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- 8
  
  Neutron interferometry at NIST
  
  Speaker: Dmitry Pushin (UNiv. Waterloo)
  
  Transparents
- 9
  
  Non-dispersive phase shifters in neutron interferometry
  
  Speaker: Hartmut Lemmel (Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology)
  
  Transparents
Tuesday 4 March
- Mon 3 Mar
- Tue 4 Mar
- Wed 5 Mar
- Thu 6 Mar
- Fri 7 Mar
- 10
  
  Frequency shifts in gravity resonance spectroscopy
  
  Speaker: Stefan Baeßler (University of Virginia)
  
  Transparents
- 11
  
  Excitation of transitions in GRANIT with time variation of magnetic field
  
  Speaker: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 12
  
  Preparing a measurement of the charge of the free neutron with qBounce
  
  Speaker: Hanno Filter (Atominstitut TU Wien)
  
  Transparents
- 13
  
  Helium UCN source in an external beam of thermal neutrons
  
  Speaker: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00
  
  coffee break
- 14
  
  UCN possibilities at the European Spallation Source
  
  Speaker: Esben Klinkby (TU Denmark)
  
  Transparents
- 15
  
  Neutron optical measurements studying quantum mechanics
  
  Speaker: Stephan Sponar (St.S)
  
  Transparents
- 16
  
  Verification of the weak equivalence principle with Laue diffracting neutrons
  
  Speaker: Egor Vezhlev (PNPI)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- round table: UCN "zero barrier" and real time potition sensitive detectors
- 17
  
  Propagation of quantized ultracold neutrons in a narrow rough waveguide: application to GRANIT experiments
  
  Speaker: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)
  
  Transparents
- 18
  
  Sizes of nanoparticles of impurity-helium gels: calculations and experimental results
  
  Speaker: Victor Efimov (ISSP, Chernogolovka, Russia)
  
  Transparents
- 19
  
  Cascaded cooling of neutrons
  
  Speaker: Oliver Zimmer (ILL Grenoble)
  
  Transparents
- 20
  
  Electroweak interactions after higgs discovery
  
  Speaker: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)
  
  Transparents
Wednesday 5 March
- Mon 3 Mar
- Tue 4 Mar
- Wed 5 Mar
- Thu 6 Mar
- Fri 7 Mar
- 21
  
  Implications of torsion-balance results for some speculations about exotic physics
  
  Speaker: Eric Adelberger (University of Washington)
  
  Transparents
- 22
  
  Searches for possible exotic spin-dependent interactions using polarized nuclei
  
  Speaker: William Snow (Indiana University)
  
  Transparents
- 23
  
  A measurement of short range spin dependent force using ultracold neutrons and a mercury magnetometer
  
  Speaker: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (PSI)
  
  Transparents
- 24
  
  Constraints for short range forces from a 3He experiment
  
  Speaker: Mathieu Guigue (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00
  
  coffee break
- 25
  
  The most recent developments on non-commutative quantum mechanics
  
  Speaker: Orfeu Bertolami (Instituto Superior Técnico, Departamento de Física)
  
  Transparents
- 26
  
  Gravity resonance spectroscopy constrains dark energy and dark matter scenarios
  
  Speaker: Tobias Jenke (TU Wien)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30
  
  lunch
- round table: UCN sources
- 27
  
  Quantum reflection of antihydrogen from the Casimir potential above matter slabs, including those of nano-porous materials
  
  Speaker: Gabriel Dufour (LKB Paris)
  
  Transparents
- 28
  
  Gravitational measurements with cold positronium
  
  Speaker: David Cassidi (UNiv. College London)
  
  Transparents
- 29
  
  Can we observe the gravitational quantum states of positronium
  
  Speaker: Paolo Crivelli (ETH)
  
  Transparents
Thursday 6 March
- Mon 3 Mar
- Tue 4 Mar
- Wed 5 Mar
- Thu 6 Mar
- Fri 7 Mar
- 30
  
  Theoretical motivations for WIMPs, WISPs and new short range forces
  
  Speaker: Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)
  
  Transparents
- 31
  
  Comparison of Casimir experiments with theory : an update
  
  Speaker: Serge Reynaud (CNRS)
  
  Transparents
- 32
  
  A search for gravity-like short-range forces in a precision measurement of neutron scattering in Xenon gas
  
  Speaker: Yoshio Kamiya (Univ. Tokyo)
  
  Transparents
- 33
  
  Bounds on new light particles from high-energy and very small momentum transfer n p elastic scattering data
  
  Speaker: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00
  
  coffee break
- 34
  
  Testing baryon number violation with neutrons
  
  Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. L'Aquila and LNGS)
  
  Transparents
- 35
  
  Probing chameleon scalar field with neutrons
  
  Speaker: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)
  
  Transparents
- 36
  
  Dark gravitational quantum states and their relation to galactic centre black holes and the X-ray emission of halos
  
  Speaker: Allan Ernest (Charles Sturt University)
  
  Transparents
- 12:30
  
  lunch
- round table: new physics with ultracold quantum systems
- 37
  
  Shaping the distribution of vertical velocities of antihydrogen in GBAR
  
  Speaker: Gabriel Dufour (LKB)
  
  Transparents
- 38
  
  Gravitational quantum states of antihydrogen
  
  Speaker: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)
  
  Transparents
- 39
  
  Spectroscopy of cold atomic hydrogen
  
  Speaker: Nikolai Kolachevsky
  
  Transparents
- 40
  
  GBAR project
  
  Speaker: PASCAL DEBU (CEA/IRFU)
  
  Transparents
Friday 7 March
- Mon 3 Mar
- Tue 4 Mar
- Wed 5 Mar
- Thu 6 Mar
- Fri 7 Mar
- 41
  
  Electrical characterization and nano-scale surface morphology with Scanning Probe Microscopes
  
  Speaker: Andrea Liscio (CNR-ISOF, Bologna)
  
  Transparents
- 42
  
  Quantum levitation of nanoparticles seen with ultracold neutrons
  
  Speaker: Valery V. Nesvizhevsky (Institut Laue-Langevin)
  
  Transparents
- 43
  
  Theoretical description of the interaction of UCN with nanoparticles and nanodroplets at surface
  
  Speaker: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)
  
  Transparents
- 44
  
  Measurement of small heating of UCN on FOmblin oil surface
  
  Speaker: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)
  
  Transparents
- 11:00
  
  cofee break
- 45
  
  Neutron whispering gallery
  
  Speaker: Konstantin Protasov (Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology)
  
  Transparents
- 46
  
  Summary
- 47
  
  Concluding remarks