International Workshop
UCN Sources and Experiments
Sept. 13-14, 2007
TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC

 

Agenda

Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007

8:30-8:45 Welcome and TRIUMF overview (J.-M. Poutissou, TRIUMF)  
8:45-9:00 Workshop goals and TRIUMF plans (J. W. Martin, U. Winnipeg) pdf
Session: UCN sources Part I (Chair: Takeyasu Ito, LANL)
9:00-9:30 ILL status and plans (P. Geltenbort, ILL)  
9:30-10:00 TRIGA Mainz status and experimental plans (G. Hampel, U. Mainz) ppt
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10:00-10:15 coffee break  
10:15-10:45 Munich FRM-II status and experimental plans (E. Gutsmiedl, T.U. Muenchen) ppt
10:45-11:15 NCSU Pulstar reactor (A. Young, NCSU) ppt
11:15-11:45 Superthermal sources of UCN and solid oxygen (C.-Y. Liu, Indiana U.) ppt
11:45-12:15 Superthermal sources and in-source experiments (R. Golub, NCSU)  
12:15-13:30 Lunch  
Session: UCN sources Part II (Chair: Glen Marshall, TRIUMF)
13:30-14:00 RCNP status and plans for TRIUMF (Y. Masuda, KEK) pdf
14:00-14:30 LANL (M. Makela, LANL) pdf
14:30-15:00 PSI (M. Daum, PSI) ppt
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15:00-15:15 coffee  
Session: neutron lifetime experiments (Chair: Chair: Glen Marshall, TRIUMF)
15:15-15:45 UCN lifetime experiments (P. Geltenbort, ILL)  
15:45-16:00 NIST CN Penning trap lifetime experiment (F. Wietfeldt, Tulane U.) pdf
16:00-16:30 NIST/SNS UCN magnetic trap lifetime experiment (P. Huffman, NCSU) pdf
16:30-16:45 Neutron Lifetime Review: Status and future (Bowman/Hickerson,Oak Ridge) ppt

Friday, Sept. 14, 2007

Session: angular correlations in neutron decay (chair: M. Gericke, U. Manitoba)
9:00-9:30 Precision beta-decay and the standard model (S. Gardner, U. Kentucky) pdf
9:30-10:00 Neutron experiments and physics beyond the standard model (J. Ng, TRIUMF) pdf
10:00-10:30 The Neutron Alphabet, Exploring the Properties of Fundamental Interactions with Cold Neutrons (H. Abele, U. Mainz) ppt
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10:30-10:45 coffee  
10:45-11:15 UCNA(B. Filippone, Caltech) ppt
11:15-11:30 aCORN (F. Wietfeldt, Tulane U.)  
11:30-11:45 R-coefficient (K. Bodek, Jagiellonian U.) pdf
11:45-12:00 D-coefficient and the emiT experiment (P. Mumm, NIST)
12:00-12:15 neutron radiative decay (P. Mumm, NIST)
12:15-13:30 Lunch  
Session: Neutron EDM (Chair: Mike Hayden, SFU )
13:30-14:00 EDM theory overview (M. Pospelov, U. Victoria/Perimeter Inst.) pdf
14:00-14:30 SNS n-EDM (T. Ito, LANL)  
14:30-15:00 PSI n-EDM (K. Bodek, Jagiellonian U.) pdf
15:00-15:15 coffee  
Session: Interesting UCN experiments (Chair: Mike Hayden, SFU )
15:15-15:45 Quantization of energy levels in the Earth's gravitational field (S. Baessler, U. Mainz/U. Virginia) ppt
15:45-16:15 Solid state physics experiments with UCN (E. Korobkina, NCSU) ppt
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16:15-16:35 Radioactive beams and UCN (L. Buchmann, TRIUMF) ppt
16:35-16:50 neutron-antineutron oscillations (A. Young, NCSU) ppt
16:50-17:00 workshop summary (J. W. Martin, U. Winnipeg) pdf