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 mars 2014, 16:00 → 7 mars 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.

Participants

Abramovskii Aleksei
Alejandro Frank
Alexander Burdin
Alexander Meyerovich
Alexander Nezvanov
Alexander Petukhov
Alexander Strelkov
Alexei Muzychka
Alexei Voronin
Ali Izadi Rad
Allan Ernest
Andrea Liscio
benchrif fatma
Benoit Clément
Boris Kerbikov
Bruno Guerard
chouaf mohamed imad
Crivelli Paolo
Damien Roulier
David Cassidy
Dirk van der Werf
Dmitry Pushin
Egor Lychagin
Egor Vezhlev
Eric Adelberger
Esben Klinkby
Francis Vezzu
Gabriel Dufour
Go Ichikawa
Guillaume Pignol
Gunther Cronenberg
Hanno Filter
Hartmut Abele
Hartmut Lemmel
Ignatios Antoniadis
Jodi Walsh
Konstantin Protasov
Ksenia Khabarova
Leonid Mezhov-Deglin
Martin Thalhammer
Mathieu Guigue
mazouz amel
Mikhail Vysotskiy
Mohammed Kotbi
Nikolay Kolachevskiy
Orfeu Bertolami
Pascal DEBU
Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg
Philippe Brax
Serge REYNAUD
Stefan Baessler
Stephan Sponar
Tobias JENKE
Valery V. Nesvizhevsky
Viktor Efimov
William Snow
Yoshio Kamiya
yuji hasegawa
Yury Obukhov
Zurab Berezhiani

Support

nesvizhevsky@ill.fr

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