GRANIT 2014

Mar 2, 2014, 4:00 PM → Mar 7, 2014, 4:00 PM Europe/Paris

Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

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

Monday, March 3

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM Welcome

General informations Protassov_Welcome.ppt

Transparents 2014.03.03_GRANIT_Les_Houches.pdf

9:20 AM → 10:00 AM Status of the GRANIT spectrometer

Speaker: Francis Vezzu (LPSC Grenoble)

Transparents 14-03-03_Workshop_Les_Houches-Status_of_the_Granit_Spectrometer.pptx

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Commissionning of the UCN source for GRANIT

Speaker: Damien Roulier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble / Institut laue-Langevin, Grenoble)

Transparents roulier_granit.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM MonteCarlo simulations of the GRANIT UCN source and extraction system

Speaker: Benoit CLEMENT (LPSC)

Transparents STARucn_GranitWorkshop_bclement.pdf STARucn_GranitWorkshop_bclement.pptx

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Analysis and design optimization of a rough neutron mirror

Speaker: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)

Transparents Meyerovich-2014-03-Mirror.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:10 AM coffee break

11:10 AM → 11:50 AM qBounce: Frequency's view on Newton's inverse square law of gravity

Speaker: Gunther Cronenberg (TU Wien)

Minutes IMG_2713.JPG

Transparents 2014-03-Les-Houches-Cronenberg-Distribute.pdf

11:50 AM → 12:30 PM Observation of gravitational quantum states of ultracold neutrons and its derivation using the Wigner function

Speaker: Go Ichikawa (The University of Tokyo)

Transparents ichikawa_GRANIT-2014.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

5:20 PM → 6:00 PM Neutron interferometry at NIST

Speaker: Dmitry Pushin (UNiv. Waterloo)

Transparents pushin_GRANIT_2014.pdf

6:00 PM → 6:40 PM Non-dispersive phase shifters in neutron interferometry

Speaker: Hartmut Lemmel (Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology)

Transparents Lemmel_nondisp_phsh.pdf

Tuesday, March 4

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Frequency shifts in gravity resonance spectroscopy

Speaker: Stefan Baeßler (University of Virginia)

Transparents Baessler.pdf FrequencyShifts_LesHouches2014.pptx

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Excitation of transitions in GRANIT with time variation of magnetic field

Speaker: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)

Transparents TransitionsPignol.pdf TransitionsPignol.pptx

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Preparing a measurement of the charge of the free neutron with qBounce

Speaker: Hanno Filter (Atominstitut TU Wien)

Transparents Hanno.pdf

10:20 AM → 11:00 AM Helium UCN source in an external beam of thermal neutrons

Speaker: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)

Transparents GRANIT2014_UCN_source.ppt

11:00 AM → 11:10 AM coffee break

11:10 AM → 11:30 AM UCN possibilities at the European Spallation Source

Speaker: Esben Klinkby (TU Denmark)

Transparents UCN_at_ESS_Granit.pdf

11:30 AM → 12:10 PM Neutron optical measurements studying quantum mechanics

Speaker: Stephan Sponar (St.S)

Transparents Sponar_GRANIT.pdf

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM Verification of the weak equivalence principle with Laue diffracting neutrons

Speaker: Egor Vezhlev (PNPI)

Transparents Vezhlev_EO_GRANIT_2014.pptx

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM round table: UCN "zero barrier" and real time potition sensitive detectors

5:20 PM → 6:00 PM Propagation of quantized ultracold neutrons in a narrow rough waveguide: application to GRANIT experiments

Speaker: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)

Transparents Meyerovich-2014-03-LesHouches.pdf

6:00 PM → 6:20 PM Sizes of nanoparticles of impurity-helium gels: calculations and experimental results

Speaker: Victor Efimov (ISSP, Chernogolovka, Russia)

Transparents Efimov-Les-Houche-2014.pptx

6:20 PM → 6:40 PM Cascaded cooling of neutrons

Speaker: Oliver Zimmer (ILL Grenoble)

Transparents Zimmer.pptx

6:40 PM → 7:20 PM Electroweak interactions after higgs discovery

Speaker: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)

Transparents SPbWS14.pdf

Wednesday, March 5

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Implications of torsion-balance results for some speculations about exotic physics

Speaker: Eric Adelberger (University of Washington)

Transparents Adelberger.pdf

9:40 AM → 10:20 AM Searches for possible exotic spin-dependent interactions using polarized nuclei

Speaker: William Snow (Indiana University)

Transparents WMSWeakspinforcesGRANIT.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM A measurement of short range spin dependent force using ultracold neutrons and a mercury magnetometer

Speaker: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (PSI)

Transparents GRANIT2014_Schmidt-Wellenburg.pptx

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Constraints for short range forces from a 3He experiment

Speaker: Mathieu Guigue (LPSC)

Transparents Guigue.pptx

11:00 AM → 11:10 AM coffee break

11:10 AM → 11:50 AM The most recent developments on non-commutative quantum mechanics

Speaker: Orfeu Bertolami (Instituto Superior Técnico, Departamento de Física)

Transparents Bertolami_NC_GRANIT2014.pdf

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Gravity resonance spectroscopy constrains dark energy and dark matter scenarios

Speaker: Tobias Jenke (TU Wien)

Transparents Jenke_GRANIT_LesHouches_2014.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM round table: UCN sources

6:00 PM → 6:20 PM Quantum reflection of antihydrogen from the Casimir potential above matter slabs, including those of nano-porous materials

Speaker: Gabriel Dufour (LKB Paris)

Transparents Dufour_GRANIT_1.pdf

6:20 PM → 7:00 PM Gravitational measurements with cold positronium

Speaker: David Cassidi (UNiv. College London)

Transparents Cassidy_LESHOUCHE_2014.pptx

7:00 PM → 7:20 PM Can we observe the gravitational quantum states of positronium

Speaker: Paolo Crivelli (ETH)

Transparents PsQMGravitationalState.pdf

Thursday, March 6

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM Theoretical motivations for WIMPs, WISPs and new short range forces

Speaker: Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)

Transparents Antoniadis_GRANIT2014.pdf

9:40 AM → 10:20 AM Comparison of Casimir experiments with theory : an update

Speaker: Serge Reynaud (CNRS)

Transparents Reynaud_GRANIT2014.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM A search for gravity-like short-range forces in a precision measurement of neutron scattering in Xenon gas

Speaker: Yoshio Kamiya (Univ. Tokyo)

Transparents granit2014.kamiya.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Bounds on new light particles from high-energy and very small momentum transfer n p elastic scattering data

Speaker: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)

Transparents KTV4.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:10 AM coffee break

11:10 AM → 11:50 AM Testing baryon number violation with neutrons

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. L'Aquila and LNGS)

Transparents Granit2014-Berezhiani.pdf

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Probing chameleon scalar field with neutrons

Speaker: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)

Transparents Chameleons.pptx

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM 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 Dark_gravitational_quantum_states_and_their_relation_to_galactic_centre_black_holes_and_the_X-ray_emission_of_halos_GRANIT_2014_3.pptx

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM round table: new physics with ultracold quantum systems

5:20 PM → 5:40 PM Shaping the distribution of vertical velocities of antihydrogen in GBAR

Speaker: Gabriel Dufour (LKB)

Transparents Dufour_GRANIT_2.pdf

5:40 PM → 6:20 PM Gravitational quantum states of antihydrogen

Speaker: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)

Transparents Gravitational_states_of_antihydrogenGRANIT.pptx

6:20 PM → 6:40 PM Spectroscopy of cold atomic hydrogen

Speaker: Nikolai Kolachevsky

Transparents Granit_Kolachevsky.ppt

6:40 PM → 7:20 PM GBAR project

Speaker: PASCAL DEBU (CEA/IRFU)

Transparents Debu.pdf Debu.pptx

Friday, March 7

9:20 AM → 10:00 AM Electrical characterization and nano-scale surface morphology with Scanning Probe Microscopes

Speaker: Andrea Liscio (CNR-ISOF, Bologna)

Transparents Liscio_GRANIT.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Quantum levitation of nanoparticles seen with ultracold neutrons

Speaker: Valery V. Nesvizhevsky (Institut Laue-Langevin)

Transparents 2014.03.07_GRANIT_Les_Houches.pptx

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM Theoretical description of the interaction of UCN with nanoparticles and nanodroplets at surface

Speaker: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)

Transparents UCN_scattering_by_a_gas_of_nanoparticles.pptx

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Measurement of small heating of UCN on FOmblin oil surface

Speaker: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)

Transparents Lychagin_GRANIT-2014.ppt

11:00 AM → 11:10 AM cofee break

11:10 AM → 11:30 AM Neutron whispering gallery

Speaker: Konstantin Protasov (Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology)

Transparents Protasov_Centrifuge.ppt

11:30 AM → 11:50 AM Summary

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Concluding remarks