Conveners
Mo - 1
- Session Chair: Klaus Kirch (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Mike Seidel
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
09/09/2013, 08:50
Advanced muon and ultracold neutron sources
Oral
The cyclotron based proton accelerator at PSI generates one of the most powerful beams in the world. The presentation reviews capabilities and performance figures of the facility. These include the overall layout and key parameters, the control of beam losses, energy efficiency, and a brief introduction of the high power targets in use for neutron and muon production. Finally an ongoing...
Prof.
Geoffrey Greene
(University of Tennessee)
09/09/2013, 09:05
Oral
The construction of intense sources of low energy neutrons has enabled a highly productive research program in which cold and ultracold neutrons are used to study fundamental interactions and basic symmetries of nature. A remarkable feature of this program of “Fundamental Neutron Physics” is that it includes serious investigations of the behavior of the neutron under the influence of the...
Andrzej Czarnecki
(U. Alberta)
09/09/2013, 09:35
Oral
I will review applications of the muon as a probe for new phenomena.
Topics to be discussed include the free muon decay and the
determination of the Fermi constant; using muonic atoms to measure
nuclear form factors and radii, through spectroscopy and capture; the
anomalous magnetic moment of the muon; and searches for charged lepton flavor violation such as mu->e+gamma, mu->3e, and the...
Dr
Randolf Pohl
(Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)
09/09/2013, 10:05
Oral
The measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen has resulted in a tenfold improved value of the RMS charge radius of the proton, compared to previous determinations from elastic electron-proton scattering and hydrogen spectroscopy. The muonic and the electronic values of the proton radius differ, however, by more than 7 standard deviations.
Laser spectroscopy of muonic deuterium and...
