Conveners
Mo - 2
- Session Chair: Peter Kammel
Prof.
Krzysztof Pachucki
(Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw)
09/09/2013, 11:00
Oral
Assuming validity of electronic and muonic hydrogen experiments
and assuming universality of lepton interactions, it is plausible
to expect an unknown yet interaction at the range of the electron Compton wavelength. There are accurate measurements in search for such forces at larger distances, like that with the molecular hydrogen, H$_2^+$ or antiprotonic helium, but muonic hydrogen
is the...
Dr
Christopher Morris
(Los Alamos)
09/09/2013, 11:25
Oral
Abstract Transmission radiography using cosmic ray muons is a technique first used in the 1950’s by E.P.George[1] to measure the overburden of mine shafts, and most famously by Alvarez[2] to search for hidden chambers in the second pyramid of Chephren in Gaza. The high penetrating power of near horizontal cosmic ray muons has even been utilized in radiographing volcanoes.[3] The high...
Prof.
Lawrence Gibbons
(Cornell University)
09/09/2013, 11:50
Oral
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will build upon the work of its predecessors at CERN and Brookhaven to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, a_mu, to 0.14 ppm. With this factor of four improvement in precision over the statistically-limited Brookhaven E821 experiment, we will test the 3.6 $\sigma$ discrepancy between the Standard Model (SM) theory prediction and experimental...
Prof.
Allena Opper
(The George Washington University)
09/09/2013, 12:35
Oral
The Qweak experiment was designed to exploit the small parity violating asymmetry in elastic ep scattering to make the first direct measurement of the proton’s weak charge, $Q_W^p$, and measure the running of the weak mixing angle, $sin^2q_w$, at low $Q^2$. The Standard Model predicts the proton’s weak charge, based on the running of the weak mixing angle from the $Z_0$ pole to low energies....
