Name: Physics of fundamental Symmetries and Interactions - PSI2013
Start: 2013-09-08T16:55:00+02:00
End: 2013-09-12T19:11:00+02:00
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Physics of fundamental Symmetries and Interactions - PSI2013

from Sunday 8 September 2013 (16:55) to Thursday 12 September 2013 (19:11)

Monday 2 September 2013
Tuesday 3 September 2013
Wednesday 4 September 2013
Thursday 5 September 2013
Friday 6 September 2013
Saturday 7 September 2013
Sunday 8 September 2013

17:00

17:00 - 19:00

18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Hotel zur Therme

Monday 9 September 2013

08:15

08:15 - 08:45
08:45
08:45 - 10:35
Room: Main Auditorium (WHGA/001)
Contributions

08:45 Welcome - Joel Mesot (Director - PSI)

08:47 Welcome - Kurt Clausen (PSI - NUM Department Head)

08:50 PSI’s high intensity proton accelerator – performance highlights and prospects - Mike Seidel (Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:05 Fundamental Physics with Cold and Ultracold Neutrons - Geoffrey Greene (University of Tennessee)

09:35 Fundamental physics with muons - Andrzej Czarnecki (U. Alberta)

10:05 Laser spectroscopy of muonic atoms - Randolf Pohl (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)
10:35 Coffee
Coffee
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Lobby
11:00
11:00 - 12:55
Contributions

11:00 Light muonic atoms in search of new interactions at the Compton wavelength scale - Krzysztof Pachucki (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw)

11:25 Cosmic Ray Radiography - Christopher Morris (Los Alamos)

11:50 The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab - Lawrence Gibbons (Cornell University)

12:15 Kaonic atoms – high precision studies on the low-energy antikaon interaction - Tomoichi Ishiwatari

12:35 First Determination of the Proton’s Weak Charge – Early results from Qweak - Allena Opper (The George Washington University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Oase
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Rare pion and kaon decays - Toshio Numao (TRIUMF)

15:00 Kaon experiments at CERN: recent results and prospects - Francis Newson (University of Birmingham, UK)

15:20 Search for lepton universality violation in kaon two-body decays - Jun Imazato (KEK)

15:40 Standard Model Tests with Coherent Neutrino Scattering - Robert Cooper (Indiana University)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Lobby
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Probing CP violation with EDMs - Adam Ritz (University of Victoria)

17:00 New Searches for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment - Brad Filippone (caltech)

17:30 Present status and future prospects of nEDM experiment (PNPI-ILL-PTI) - Anatolii Serebrov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

17:50 A nEDM measurement by using a spallation UCN source of He-II - Yasuhiro Masuda (KEK)

18:10 A Next-Generation Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations Experiment at Fermilab - Albert Young (North Carolina State University/Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)
Tuesday 10 September 2013
08:45
08:45 - 10:20
Contributions

08:45 High Precision Experiments with Cold and Ultra-Cold Neutrons - Hartmut Abele (Atominstitut)

09:15 New Results from the NPDGamma Parity Violation Experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source - Christopher Crawford (University of Kentucky)

09:35 Parity-odd Neutron Spin Rotation - Adam Holley (Indiana University)

09:55 Phase diffraction gratings for the transformation of neutron energy - Alexander Frank (JINR)
10:20 Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Lobby
10:50
10:50 - 13:05
Contributions

10:50 Fundamental Physics at Free Electron Lasers - Andreas Ringwald (DESY)

11:20 Present status of crystal diffraction nEDM experiment and related neutron optics phenomena - Valery Fedorov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

11:40 Measurements of Neutron Decay Correlation Coefficients with PERKEO and PERC - Bastian Märkisch (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg)

12:00 Status of the aSPECT experiment - Marcus Beck (Helmholtz-Institut Mainz and Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

12:20 Measurement of Electric Dipole Moments in Storage Rings - Joerg Pretz (RWTH Aachen University)

12:45 Test of Time-Reversal Invariance at COSY (TRIC) - Dieter Eversheim (Helmholtz Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik, University Bonn, Germany)
13:05 Lunch
Lunch
13:05 - 14:30
Room: Oase
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Fundamental Physics at J-PARC - Satoshi Mihara (KEK)

14:55 Muon Capture: Status and Prospects - Peter Kammel Kammel (University of Washington, Seattle)

15:20 Theoretical study of muon capture in light nuclei - Michele Viviani (INFN - Pisa)

15:45 Muon Capture on the Deuteron : The MuSun Experiment - Michael Murray (University of Washington)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Lobby
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Precision measurement of muonium hyperfine splitting at J-PARC - Sohtaro Kanda (The University of Tokyo)

16:45 Neutron Polarimetry On the 10^-4 Level - Christine Klauser (Institut Laue-Langevin, Atominstitut TU Wien)

17:00 Latest results from the superfluid-helium UCNs source SUN2 at ILL - Florian Martin (Institut Laüe Langevin)

17:15 A new source for ultracold neutrons at TRIGA Mainz: latest results - Jan Peter Karch (Institute of Physics, University of Mainz)

17:30 Status of the source for ultracold neutrons (UCN) at the Paul Scherrer Institute - Dieter Ries (PSI)
18:00
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Lobby
Contributions

18:00 Magnetic field environment for the CryoEDM experiment - Stuart Ingleby (Sussex University)

18:00 An absolute, high-precision 3He / Cs combined magnetometer - Hans-Christian Koch (University of Mainz / University of Fribourg)

18:00 High electric field development for the SNS nEDM experiment - Takeyasu Ito (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

18:00 Precision Magnetometry For Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiments - Amy Cottle (University of Oxford)

18:00 Design of a Simultaneous Spin Analyser for the nEDM experiment at PSI - Victor HELAINE (PSI/LPC Caen)

18:00 A deep ultra-violet frequency-quadrupled diode laser system for the mercury co-magnetometer in the nEDM experiment - Martin Fertl (Paul Scherrer Institut)

18:00 First application of an improved neutron optical force meter - Christian Siemensen (Institute of Nuclear Chemistry Mainz) Daniel Brose (University of Mainz)

18:00 A new perfluorinated Polymers at liquid Nitrogen Temperature as a UCN Storage Material - Christian Düsing (University Mainz)

18:00 Feasibility study for a new high-intensity muon beam line (HiMB) at PSI - Andreas Knecht (Paul Scherrer Institut)

18:00 PSI Secondary Beam Lines Customized to New Experiments - Davide Reggiani (Paul Scherrer Institut) Konrad Deiters (Paul Scherrer Institut)

18:00 The Uncompensated Field Drift Studies in Electric Dipole Moment of neutron (nEDM) Experiment. - Prashanth Pataguppi (Paul Scherrer Institute)

18:00 Progress towards a next generation UCN source at TRIUMF - Ruediger Picker (TRIUMF)

18:00 MC simulations for RT-nEDM systematics - Geza Zsigmond (Paul Scherrer Institut)

18:00 A Measurement of the Total Cross Section of Liquid Parahydrogen for Cold Neutrons - Kyle Grammer (University of Tennessee)

18:00 Search for the MUonium annihilation inTO Neutrinos (MUTON) - Paolo Crivelli (ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics)

18:00 HOPE – a magnetic UCN trap to measure the neutron lifetime - Felix Rosenau (ILL)

18:00 The GRANIT experiment - Damien Roulier (Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France and Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)

18:00 A g-2 experiment with the PSI high quality muon beam in development - David Taqqu (ETH Zürich)

18:00 ATLAS Upgrades Towards the High Luminosity LHC: extending the discovery potential - ATLAS Collaboration ATLAS Collaboration (ATLAS)

18:00 The miniBETA spectrometer for the determination of weak magnetism and the Fierz interference term - Gergelj Soti (IKS, KU Leuven)

18:00 Beta-asymmetry parameter of 67Cu for tensor current search - Gergelj Soti (IKS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

18:00 Investigation of the work function fluctuations for high precision experiments - Christian Schmidt (Institute of Physics, University of Mainz)

18:00 The Fundamental Physics beamline @ ESS - Camille Theroine (ESS)

18:00 NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SPALLATION TARGET PERFORMANCE OF THE ULTRACOLD NEUTRON SOURCE AT THE PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT - Michael Wohlmuther (Paul Scherrer Institut)

18:00 Ultracold neutron detectors based on Boron-10 converters used in the qBounce experiments - Tobias Jenke (Universitätsassistent)

18:00 A pixelated Scintillator Positron Timing Counter with SiPM readout for the MEG Experiment Upgrade - Miki Nishimura (The University of Tokyo)

18:00 Preparing a Measurement of the Charge of the free Neutron within qBounce - Hanno Filter (Atominstitut TU Wien)

18:00 R&D status of the COMET experiment to search for a mu-e conversion at J-PARC - Hajime NISHIGUCHI (KEK)

18:00 qBounce: Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy to test Dark Energy and Dark Matter models - Gunther Cronenberg (Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology)

18:00 Development of a novel muon beam line for next generation precision experiments - Kim Siang Khaw (ETH Zurich)

18:00 Probing sub-eV particles with 3He - Mathieu Guigue (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie)

18:00 Experiment NEUTRINO-4 search for sterile neutrino at WWR-M reactor and SM-3 reactor. - Anatolii Serebrov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

18:00 Nuclear fragmentation studies with antiproton-nucleus annihilations - Jiro Kawada (Bern University)

18:00 Investigation of systematic uncertainties of the aSPECT experiment - Alexander Wunderle (Institute of Physics, Uni Mainz)

18:00 Background investigations on the neutron β-decay spectrometer aSPECT - Romain MAISONOBE (Institut Laue-Langevin)

18:00 Accuracy before sensitivity: Magnetically-silent vector magnetometer as a new tool for nEDM search - Zoran Grujić (University of Fribourg, Department of Physics)

18:00 Digital pulse processing of proton detector signals for the spectrometer aSPECT - Romain Virot (Institut Laue-Langevin)

18:00 Development of a systematic studies apparatus at North Carolina State University for the nEDM collaboration - Kent Leung (North Carolina State University)

18:00 Novel Detection System for Electron and Proton Momentum Spectroscopy with PERC - Gertrud Konrad (TU Wien, Atominstitut)

18:00 A new muon beam line for fundamental physics study in J-PARC - Naritoshi Kawamura (KEK)

18:00 Search for LFV and rare decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN - Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham, UK)

18:00 Atomic cesium magnetometers in the search for neutron EDM - Malgorzata Kasprzak (University of Fribourg)

18:00 Development of UV-sensitive MPPC for the upgrade of liquid xenon detector in MEG experiment - Daisuke Kaneko (University of Tokyo)

18:00 Electric Fields in Cryogenic nEDM Experiments - Michael Hardiman (University of Sussex)

18:00 Precision Magnetic Fields for Fundamental Neutron Symmetries - Christopher Crawford (University of Kentucky)

18:00 Measuring The Neutron Lifetime to One Second Using in Beam Techniques - Jonathan Mulholland (University of Tennessee)

18:00 Ultracold Sr experiment toward the search for the electron-EDM using ultracold FrSr molecules - Takatoshi Aoki (University of Tokyo)

18:00 Development of a simulation for measuring neutron electric dipole moment - Ryo Katayama (The University of Tokyo)
Wednesday 11 September 2013
08:45
08:45 - 10:30
Contributions

08:45 Precision Penning-trap mass measurements and fundamental constants - Klaus Blaum Blaum (Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik)

09:10 A new mass of the electron - Florian Köhler (GSI)

09:25 A single trapped Ra+ion to measure Atomic Parity Violation - Lorenz Willmann

09:45 Positronium 1S-2S measurement - Paolo Crivelli (ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics)

10:05 Sub-THz Spectroscopy of the Ground State Hyperfine Splitting of Positronium - Takayuki Yamazaki (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Lobby
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Search for a permanent EDM with radioactive atoms - Yasuhiro Sakemi (Tohoku University)

11:25 Octupole enhanced EDMs: Recent progress on the Radon-EDM program - Tim Chupp (University of Michigan)

11:45 The electron EDM from polar molecules - Ben Sauer (Imperial College London)

12:10 The Electron and Its Dipole Moments: Most Stringent Tests of the Standard Model - Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University)

12:35 Experimental search for atomic EDM in 129Xe using active nuclear spin maser - Yuichi Ichikawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Oase
14:30
14:30 - 15:50
Contributions

14:30 Antihydrogen and Antiproton Physics in the LHC era - Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF)

15:00 Towards the Production of a Polarized Antihydrogen Beam - Stefan Ulmer (RIKEN, Ulmer Initiative Research Unit, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

15:25 Antiproton and Antihydrogen Studies at ATRAP - Stephan Malbrunot-Ettenauer (Harvard University)
15:50 Coffee
Coffee
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Lobby
16:20
16:20 - 18:10
Contributions

16:20 Low-energy precision measurements at the intensity frontier - Nathal Severijns (Katholieke Univ. Leuven)

16:50 The limits on tensor-type weak currents and the beta-neutrino correlation of 6He - Frederik Wauters (Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics)

17:10 Probing the Standard Model via 35Ar beta decay with the WITCH spectrometer - A. Finlay (Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, K.U. Leuven)

17:30 Gravitational four-fermion interaction and dynamics of the early Universe - Iosif Khriplovich (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk)

17:50 New method for checking a neutron electroneutrality by spin interferometry technique - Vladimir Voronin (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
19:00
19:00 - 22:30
Room: Trotte
Contributions

19:00 Workshop dinner

20:45 Concert - Hochrhein-Bigband
Thursday 12 September 2013
08:45
08:45 - 10:20
Contributions

08:50 CP violation and precision measurement of CKM parameters at LHCb - Fred Blanc (EPFL)

09:10 Low-energy precision tests of spacetime symmetries - Ralf Lehnert (Indiana University Center for Spacetime Symmetries)

09:30 Limit on Lorentz and CPT Violation of the Bound Neutron Using a Free Precession 3He/129Xe Co-magnetometer - Werner Heil (Institute of Physics)

09:50 Search for axion like pseudo scalar spin interaction with a 3He-129Xe clock comparison experiment. - Ulrich Schmidt (Physikalisches Institut der Uni Heidelberg)

10:05 Tests of Lorentz symmetry in neutron decay - Jorge S Diaz (Indiana University)
10:20 Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Lobby
10:50
10:50 - 13:00
Contributions

10:50 Ultracold neutrons from superfluid helium for a neutron lifetime experiment at ILL - Oliver Zimmer (Institut Laue Langevin)

11:15 Neutron Lifetime Measurement by storing ultracold neutrons and simultaneously measuring inelastically scattered neutrons - Peter Geltenbort (Institut Laue-Langevin)

11:35 Big Gravitational Trap for neutron lifetime measurements - Alexey Fomin (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

11:55 The science program at the Los Alamos ultra-cold neutron source - Alexander Saunders (Los Alamos National Lab)

12:20 The Neutron Lifetime Experiment at LANL - Steven Clayton (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:40 Improved Determination of the Neutron Lifetime - Maynard Dewey (NIST)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Oase
14:30
14:30 - 15:55
Contributions

14:30 Project X - Robert Tschirhart (Fermilab)

14:55 Mu2e at Fermilab: a search for charged lepton flavor violation in muon to electron conversion - Andrei Gaponenko (Fermilab)

15:15 Searching for the lepton flavor violating decay mu->egamma with the MEG experiment: results and perspectives - Cecilia Voena (INFN Roma)

15:35 The Mu3e Experiment at PSI - Andre Schoening (University Heidelberg, Institute of Physiscs)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Lobby
16:30 Joint Session
Joint Session
16:30 - 19:11
Contributions

16:30 Welcome - Malte Hildebrandt (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:31 Silicon tracking detectors in Particle Physics - Tilman Rohe (Paul Scherrer Institut)

17:01 HV CMOS Technology - Ivan Peric (University of Heidelberg)

17:31 SiPM - status and propects. - Yuri Musienko (FNAL (Batavia) & Institute for Nuclear Research (Moscow))

18:01 Waveform digitzing in the Giga-sample Range with Switched Capacitor Arrays - Stefan Ritt (Paul Scherrer Institut)