International Workshop: Probing Fundamental Symmetries and Interactions with UCN

11 Apr 2016, 08:00 → 15 Apr 2016, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

JGU Mainz, Germany - Waldthausen Castle

The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading international experts from both experiment and theory in the field of UCN physics to discuss present and future experiments with UCN as well as progress in UCN sources and instrumentation.

The list of topics of our workshop comprises the full range of fundamental physics searches with UCN and also related fields of fundamental physics with cold neutrons. The workshop will include both invited and contributed talks.

1st Circular First_Circular_UCN_workshop_2016.pdf

2nd Circular Second_Circular_UCN_workshop_2016.pdf

3rd Circular Third_Circular_UCN_workshop_2016_(2).pdf

Abstracts Abstracts

Timetable http://www.kernchemie.uni-mainz.de/downloads/Timetable.pdf

Workshop Program UCN-Workshop-Program.pdf

Monday 11 April

09:00 → 12:15 n-EDM I

09:00 Vice-president JGU Mainz (W. Hofmeister)

09:10 Workshop Organizer (Werner Heil)

09:20 Electric dipole moments: a look beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Michael Ramsey-Musolf (UMass Amherst)

Slides 1_MJRM_Mainz_EDM_16.pdf

10:00 Searches for the EDM of the neutron

Speaker: Klaus Kirch

Slides 2_KIRCH_Mainz_2016.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

11:00 Nucleon charges and probing novel CP violation via neutron EDM

Speaker: Rajan Gupta (LANL)

Slides 3_Gupta_Mainz_talk.pdf

11:25 Search for the EDM of the neutron at PSI

Speaker: Vira Bondar (PSI)

Slides 4_BONDAR_nEDM-PSI-VB.pdf

11:50 New effort to develop an nEDM experiment at LANL

Speaker: Takeyasu Ito (LANL)

Slides 5_ITO_LANL_nEDM.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:20 n-EDM - II

14:00 Present status and future prospects of nEDM experiment of PNPI-ILL-PTI collaboration

Speaker: Anatoly Serebrov (PNPI Gatchina)

Slides 1_SEREBROV-EDM_Mainz_11_apr.pdf

14:25 Cryogenic magnetic shielding R&D for nEDM at SNS

Speaker: Simon Slutsky (Caltech Pasadena)

Slides 2_SLUTSKY_nEDM_SNS_Magnets_Mainz_04_2016.pdf

14:50 An apparatus for studying UCN storage time at cryogenic temperatures for the SNS nEDM experiment

Speaker: Zhaowen Tang (LANL)

Slides 3_TANG_UCNStorage_Mainz_ZT.pdf

15:15 Measurement cells of the SNS nEDM experiment

Speaker: Kent Leung (NCSU)

Slides 4_Leung_Mainz.pdf

15:35 The new magnetic field optimisation procedure of the nEDM experiment at PSI

Speaker: Elise Wursten (KU Leuven)

Slides 5_MagneticFieldOptimisation_MainzUCNworkshop.pdf

15:55 Simulations for the nEDM@PSI project - The MCUCN and STARucn codes

Speaker: Geza Zsigmond (PSI)

Slides 6_ZSIGMOND_MC-Zsigmond-Mainz2016.ppt

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 18:35 n-EDM/magnetomaty and instrumentation

Dedicated talks for technical, instrumentation, systematic details

16:50 Studies of perturbations of Larmor precession

Speaker: Robert Golub (NCSU)

Slides 1_Golub_MAINZ2016precession_and_its_perturbations.pdf

17:15 Magnetometry for next generation nEDM experiments

Speaker: Georg Bison (PSI)

Slides 2_Talk_Bison.pdf

17:35 High sensitivity Cs sensors for magnetic field measurements in the nEDM experiment

Speaker: Malgorzata Kasprzak (KU Leuven)

Slides 3_CsArray_Mainz_MK.pdf

17:55 A Potassium magnetometry based current source for n2EDM

Speaker: Peter Koss (Ku Leuven)

Slides 4_Koss_presentation.pdf

18:15 Precise measurements and shimming of magnetic field gradients in the low field regime

Speaker: Fabian Allmendinger (Univ. Heidelberg)

Slides 5_Allmendinger_2016-04_Mainz_UCNworkshop.pdf

18:35 → 19:35 Dinner

Tuesday 12 April

09:00 → 10:20 n-lifetime I

09:00 Cosmological constraints on the neutron lifetime

Speaker: Laura Salvati

Slides 1_SALVATI_LauraSalvati.pdf

09:40 Review of neutron lifetime experiments

Speaker: Anatoly Serebrov

Slides 2_SEREBROV_A.Serebrov_Lifetime_Mainz_12apr.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:30 N-lifetime II

10:50 UCNtau: A precision neutron lifetime measurement using a magneto-gravitational trap

Speaker: Chen-Yu Liu (Indiana Univ.)

Slides 1_LIU_2016-Mainz_UCNtau.pdf

11:30 Status of neutron lifetime experiment UCN magneto-gravitational trap made of permanent magnets

Speaker: Victor Ezhov (PNPI Gatchina)

Slides 2_EZHOV_Status_of_neutron_lifetime_measuring_in_magnetic_trap_PNPI__Mainz.pdf

12:00 The neutron lifetime experiment tSPECT

Speaker: Marcus Beck (Univ. Mainz)

Slides 3_BECK_UCN-Workshop.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:05 n-lifetime II

14:00 The neutron lifetime experiment PENeLOPE

Speaker: Wolfgang Schreyer (TU Munich)

Slides 1_SCHREYER_Mainz16.pdf

14:25 Self-triggering readout system for the neutron lifetime experiment PENeLOPE

Speaker: Dominic Gaisbauer (TU Munich)

Slides 2_GAISBAUER_Mainz2016.pdf

14:50 Measurement of neutron lifetime with pulsed cold neutron beams at J-PARC: Experimental apparatus and method

Speaker: Sei Ieki (Univ. Tokyo)

Slides 3_Sei_Ieki_12April.pdf

15:15 Measurement of neutron lifetime with pulsed cold neutron beams at J-PARC: Analysis and Result

Speaker: Naoyuki Sumi (Univ. Tokyo)

Slides 4_SUMI_Mainz2016.pdf

15:40 Leptoquarks and other new flavor violating currents in the lifetime and beta decay spectrum of UCN

Speaker: Kevin Hickerson (Caltech Pasadena)

Slides 5_Hickerson_UCNAb_-_Mainz_2016.pdf

16:05 → 16:35 Coffee Break

16:35 → 18:35 n-lifetime/systematics

Dedicated talks for technical, instrumentation, systematic details

16:35 Neutron conversion and cascaded cooling in paramagnetic systems for a high-flux source of VCN

Speaker: Oliver Zimmer (ILL Grenoble)

Slides 2_ZIMMER_2016_04_12_Mainz_Cascade_cooling.pdf

17:00 The experimental density of states and UCN loss coefficients of fluoropolymers at low temperatures

Speaker: Yuri Pokotilovski (JINR Dubna)

Slides 3_Pokotilovski-Mainz-16-pres.pdf

17:25 Investigation of perfluorinated methylene oxide oligomers (PFMO) for UCN storage

Speaker: Christian Duesing (Univ. Mainz)

Slides 4_Workshop_2016_Duesing.pdf

17:45 Advanced UCN hardware for future experiments with ultracold neutrons

Speaker: Thorsten Lauer (Movatec GmbH Eching)

Slides 1_UCN_Workshop_Mainz_2016_Lauer.pdf

18:10 Development of high position resolution neutron detector using fine-grained nuclear emulsion

Speaker: Naotaka Naganawa (Univ. Nagoya)

Slides 5_naganawa.pdf

18:35 → 19:35 Dinner

Wednesday 13 April

09:00 → 10:20 Quantum bouncing, mirror matter, exotic couplings I

09:00 qBOUNCE - realization of a quantum bouncing ball gravity spectrometer

Speaker: Hartmut Abele (TU Vienna)

Slides 1_Abele_UCN_Workshop_Waldthausen_2016_.pdf

09:40 Neutrons as a window to parallel world

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. of L`Aquila)

Slides 2_Berezhiani-Mainz.pdf

10:20 → 10:40 Coffee Break

10:40 → 12:40 Quantum bouncing, mirror matter, exotic couplings II

10:40 Neutron-mirror neutron regeneration experiment

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. of L´Aquila)

Slides 1_Kamyshkov(Berezhiani)_n-regeneration.pdf

11:05 Experiment on search for neutron-antineutron oscillations using a projected UCN source at the WWR-M reactor

Speaker: Alexey Fomin (PNPI Gatchina)

Slides 2_Fomin.pdf

11:30 Tests of the weak equivalence principle with UCNs

Speaker: Alexander Frank (JINR Dubna)

Slides 4_Frank_UCN_Mainz.pdf

11:55 The neutron charge experiment in Mainz

Speaker: Christian Siemensen (Univ. Mainz)

Slides 3_Siemensen_Mainz_2016_2.pdf

12:20 Diffraction of UCN by a moving grating and TOF Fourier spectrometry as the basis for gravity experiments

Speaker: German Kulin (JINR Dubna)

Slides 5_Mainz-2016_Kulin_fin2.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 19:00 Visit Mainz and TRIGA

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner (social event)

with wine tasting and after dinner speach

Thursday 14 April

09:00 → 10:20 Decay correlations I

09:00 Neutron decay correlations in the standard model and beyond

Speaker: Dirk Dubbers (Univ. Heidelberg)

Slides 1_Dubbers_Mainz_n-correl._14-10-2016.pdf

09:40 Physics beyond the standard model from neutron beta decay correlations at LANSCE

Speaker: Leah Broussard (LANL)

Slides 2_Broussard-Mainz16.pdf DSCN0287.MOV

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:30 Decay correlations II

10:50 Probing non-standard charged-current interactions: from UCN to the LHC

Speaker: Martin Gonzales-Alonso (IPN-Lyon)

Slides 1_Gonzalez-Alonso.pdf

11:30 The proton electron radiation channel experiment (PERC)

Speaker: Bastian Märkisch (TU Munich)

12:00 The aSPECT experiment - an overview and latest results

Speaker: Alexander Wunderle (Univ. Mainz)

Slides 3_UCN_2016_Wunderle.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:55 Decay correlations III and UCN-sources I

14:00 NoMoS: Beyond the standard model physics in neutron decay

Speaker: Gertrud Konrad (SMI Vienna)

Slides 1_UCNWorkshop__WaldthausenCastle2016_GEK_WEB.pdf

14:25 Impact of the transverse electron polarization related neutron beta decay correlations in the LHC era

Speaker: Kazimierz Bodek (Univ. Krakow)

Slides 2_K.Bodek.pdf

14:50 A cold neutron beam facility for particle physics at the ESS

Speaker: Bastian Märkisch (TU Munich)

15:15 A brief overview of ultracold neutron source development and some points of personal interest

Speaker: Albert Young (NCSU)

Slides 4_Young_Sources_Mainz_final_v3.pdf

15:55 → 16:25 Coffee Break

16:25 → 18:25 UCN-sources II

Dedicated talks for technical, instrumentation, systematic details

16:25 The ultracold and very cold neutron facility PF2 at ILL in Grenoble, France

Speaker: Peter Geltenbort (ILL Grenoble)

16:50 The ultracold neutron facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute

Speaker: Bernhard Lauss (PSI)

Slides 1_Lauss_Mainz-2016.pdf

17:15 Sources for ultracold neutrons: a world-wide comparison

Speaker: Dieter Ries (PSI)

Slides 2_DRiesUCN2016_for_upload_only.pdf

17:35 Upgrades to the ultracold neutron source at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center

Speaker: Robert Pattie (LANL)

Slides 3_rwpattie_ucn_2016_source_upgrade.pdf

18:00 Status of the UCN source at beamport D of the research reactor TRIGA Mainz

Speaker: Iurii Sobolev (Univ. Mainz)

Slides 4_SOBOLEV_Yu.Sobolev_Praesentation_for_UCN_Workshop_in_Waldthausen_Corr2.pdf

18:25 → 19:25 Dinner

Friday 15 April

09:00 → 10:30 UCN-sources III

Invited speakers

09:00 Neutron EDM Measurement with Spallation UCN Source of He-II

Speaker: Yasuhiro Masuda (KEK)

Slides 1_Mainz2016Masuda.pdf

09:30 Design and results of cryogenic commissioning tests of the PULSTAR UCN source

Speaker: Ekaterina Korobkina (NCSU)

Slides 2_Korobkina_PULSTAR_UCN_source_Mainz_2016_pdf.pdf

10:00 Ultracold neutrons at the FRM II

Speaker: Andreas Frei (TU Munich)

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:30 UCN-sources IV

10:50 UCN source with superfluid helium at WWR-M reactor

Speaker: Vitaliy Lyamkin (PNPI Gatchina)

Slides 1_Lyamkin._Mainz.pdf

11:15 Irradiation effects on solid Deuterium

Speaker: Stephan Wlokka (TU Munich)

Slides 2_wlokka_presentation.pptx

11:40 A new ultracold neutron source at the TRIGA Mainz

Speaker: Alexander Hollering (TU Munich)

Slides 3_Hollering_UCNsourceMainz.pptx

12:05 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Marcus Beck (Univ. Mainz)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 End of workshop