GRANIT 2014

Europe/Paris
Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

Ecole de Physique des Houches (France)

La Côte des Chavants - 74310 Les Houches - FRANCE
Description
Workshop on quantum gravitational spectroscopy with ultracold systems, 3rd 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
    • 1
      Welcome
      General informations
      Transparents
    • 2
      Status of the GRANIT spectrometer
      Orateur: Francis Vezzu (LPSC Grenoble)
      Transparents
    • 3
      Commissionning of the UCN source for GRANIT
      Orateur: Damien Roulier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble / Institut laue-Langevin, Grenoble)
      Transparents
    • 4
      MonteCarlo simulations of the GRANIT UCN source and extraction system
      Orateur: Benoit CLEMENT (LPSC)
      Transparents
    • 5
      Analysis and design optimization of a rough neutron mirror
      Orateur: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)
      Transparents
    • 11:00
      coffee break
    • 6
      qBounce: Frequency's view on Newton's inverse square law of gravity
      Orateur: Gunther Cronenberg (TU Wien)
      Minutes
      Transparents
    • 7
      Observation of gravitational quantum states of ultracold neutrons and its derivation using the Wigner function
      Orateur: Go Ichikawa (The University of Tokyo)
      Transparents
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 8
      Neutron interferometry at NIST
      Orateur: Dmitry Pushin (UNiv. Waterloo)
      Transparents
    • 9
      Non-dispersive phase shifters in neutron interferometry
      Orateur: Hartmut Lemmel (Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology)
      Transparents
    • 10
      Frequency shifts in gravity resonance spectroscopy
      Orateur: Stefan Baeßler (University of Virginia)
      Transparents
    • 11
      Excitation of transitions in GRANIT with time variation of magnetic field
      Orateur: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)
      Transparents
    • 12
      Preparing a measurement of the charge of the free neutron with qBounce
      Orateur: Hanno Filter (Atominstitut TU Wien)
      Transparents
    • 13
      Helium UCN source in an external beam of thermal neutrons
      Orateur: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)
      Transparents
    • 11:00
      coffee break
    • 14
      UCN possibilities at the European Spallation Source
      Orateur: Esben Klinkby (TU Denmark)
      Transparents
    • 15
      Neutron optical measurements studying quantum mechanics
      Orateur: Stephan Sponar (St.S)
      Transparents
    • 16
      Verification of the weak equivalence principle with Laue diffracting neutrons
      Orateur: 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
      Orateur: Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)
      Transparents
    • 18
      Sizes of nanoparticles of impurity-helium gels: calculations and experimental results
      Orateur: Victor Efimov (ISSP, Chernogolovka, Russia)
      Transparents
    • 19
      Cascaded cooling of neutrons
      Orateur: Oliver Zimmer (ILL Grenoble)
      Transparents
    • 20
      Electroweak interactions after higgs discovery
      Orateur: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)
      Transparents
    • 21
      Implications of torsion-balance results for some speculations about exotic physics
      Orateur: Eric Adelberger (University of Washington)
      Transparents
    • 22
      Searches for possible exotic spin-dependent interactions using polarized nuclei
      Orateur: William Snow (Indiana University)
      Transparents
    • 23
      A measurement of short range spin dependent force using ultracold neutrons and a mercury magnetometer
      Orateur: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (PSI)
      Transparents
    • 24
      Constraints for short range forces from a 3He experiment
      Orateur: Mathieu Guigue (LPSC)
      Transparents
    • 11:00
      coffee break
    • 25
      The most recent developments on non-commutative quantum mechanics
      Orateur: Orfeu Bertolami (Instituto Superior Técnico, Departamento de Física)
      Transparents
    • 26
      Gravity resonance spectroscopy constrains dark energy and dark matter scenarios
      Orateur: 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
      Orateur: Gabriel Dufour (LKB Paris)
      Transparents
    • 28
      Gravitational measurements with cold positronium
      Orateur: David Cassidi (UNiv. College London)
      Transparents
    • 29
      Can we observe the gravitational quantum states of positronium
      Orateur: Paolo Crivelli (ETH)
      Transparents
    • 30
      Theoretical motivations for WIMPs, WISPs and new short range forces
      Orateur: Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)
      Transparents
    • 31
      Comparison of Casimir experiments with theory : an update
      Orateur: Serge Reynaud (CNRS)
      Transparents
    • 32
      A search for gravity-like short-range forces in a precision measurement of neutron scattering in Xenon gas
      Orateur: Yoshio Kamiya (Univ. Tokyo)
      Transparents
    • 33
      Bounds on new light particles from high-energy and very small momentum transfer n p elastic scattering data
      Orateur: Mikhail Vysotskiy (ITEP)
      Transparents
    • 11:00
      coffee break
    • 34
      Testing baryon number violation with neutrons
      Orateur: Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. L'Aquila and LNGS)
      Transparents
    • 35
      Probing chameleon scalar field with neutrons
      Orateur: Guillaume Pignol (LPSC)
      Transparents
    • 36
      Dark gravitational quantum states and their relation to galactic centre black holes and the X-ray emission of halos
      Orateur: 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
      Orateur: Gabriel Dufour (LKB)
      Transparents
    • 38
      Gravitational quantum states of antihydrogen
      Orateur: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)
      Transparents
    • 39
      Spectroscopy of cold atomic hydrogen
      Orateur: Nikolai Kolachevsky
      Transparents
    • 40
      GBAR project
      Orateur: PASCAL DEBU (CEA/IRFU)
      Transparents
    • 41
      Electrical characterization and nano-scale surface morphology with Scanning Probe Microscopes
      Orateur: Andrea Liscio (CNR-ISOF, Bologna)
      Transparents
    • 42
      Quantum levitation of nanoparticles seen with ultracold neutrons
      Orateur: Valery V. Nesvizhevsky (Institut Laue-Langevin)
      Transparents
    • 43
      Theoretical description of the interaction of UCN with nanoparticles and nanodroplets at surface
      Orateur: Alexei Voronin (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)
      Transparents
    • 44
      Measurement of small heating of UCN on FOmblin oil surface
      Orateur: Egor Lychagin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)
      Transparents
    • 11:00
      cofee break
    • 46
      Summary
    • 47
      Concluding remarks