<P>XII Rencontres du Vietnam, Quy Nhon, Vietnam</P><P>High Sensitivity Experiments Beyond the Standard Model - HISEBSM 2016</P>

31 juil. 2016, 09:00 → 6 août 2016, 23:00 Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh

Quy nhon Vietnam

The goal of this workshop is to gather researchers, theoreticians, experimentalists and young scientists searching for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics using high sensitivity experiments.

The standard model has been very successful in describing the particle physics world; the Higgs-Englert-Brout boson discovery is its last major discovery. Complementary to the high energy frontier explored at colliders, real opportunities for discovery exist at the precision frontier, testing fundamental symmetries and tracking small SM deviations.

Scientific program and call for abstracts:

• EDM probes for CP violation and baryogenesis
• CP violation in neutrinos and leptogenesis
• Baryon number violation: Proton Decay and neutron antineutron oscillations
• Lepton number violation, lepton flavor violation
• CPT and Lorentz invariance tests, antimatter
• Light Hidden sectors (Axions and other light bosons)
• Nuclear beta decay and correlations
• Other experiments at the precision frontier (g-2, Sterile neutrinos …)
• Facilities and instruments

More infos at http://rencontresduvietnam.org/conferences/2016/high-sensitivity-experiments/

 

Book of Abstracts program_hisebsm_july_31st.pdf

lun. 1 août

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome !

09:15 → 17:30 Gravity, Fifth Forces, Antimatter

09:15 The search for exotic sub-millimeter range forces

Many theoretical models of the most profound unexplained phenomena in the universe predict modifications to the inverse square law of gravity at sub-millimeter length scales, yet this law has not been tested below 50 microns and there could be forces of nature millions of times stronger than gravity acting at this range. Following a general introduction, I describe a series of experiments sensitive to both mass-coupled and spin-coupled forces in the sub-millimeter range, with emphasis on experiments using macroscopic test masses. The sensitivity of these experiments is projected to cover much of the parameter space for predictions of forces beyond gravity and electromagnetism in the range of interest.

Orateur: Prof. Josh Long (Indiana University Physics Department, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)

Transparents long_rdv_hisebsm_20160801p.pdf

10:15 Fifth force search with neutron scattering

We report on new experimental constraints on gravity-like fifth forces by measuring the angular distribution of cold neutrons scattering off atomic xenon gas. The results improve previous upper limits on Yukawa-type parametrization space in the 4 to 0.04 nm range by a factor of up to 10, which was published in PRL 114, 161101 (2015). In this presentation, we also discuss about our new plans of experiments to test the equiv. principle at shot ranges.

Orateur: Dr Yoshio Kamiya (International Center for Elementary Particle Physicsand Department of Physics, Komamiya-group The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Transparents YoshioKamiya.pdf

11:00 Break

11:15 Probing Dark Energy Models with Neutrons

The accelerating expansion of the universe has been recently discovered and confirmed. It is one of the most puzzling observation of modern cosmology: 70% of the energy budget of the Universe today has to be attributed to a completely unknown type of Dark Energy. One theoretical route to address this problem is to assume the existence of a cosmological scalar field, the quintessence, with nontrivial dynamics. If this quintessence field is coupled to ordinary matter particles, it would also mediate a fifth fundamental force displaying very unusual properties. In particular, the force between macroscopic bodies is screened: this is the chameleon mechanism. Experiments with neutrons can alleviate the chameleon mechanism and reveal the new scalar field. I will discuss two experimental ways to probe the chameleon with neutrons : (i) neutron interferometry: a recent experiment performed with a neutron interferometer at the Institut Laue Langevin that sets already interesting constraints. (ii) bouncing ultracold neutrons: chameleons can be probed by measuring the quantum states of neutrons bouncing over a mirror. I will present the status of the GRANIT experiment at the ILL.

Orateur: Prof. Guillaume Pignol (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire et de Cosmologie Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France)

Transparents DarkEnergyNeutronsPignol.pdf

14:00 Prospects of in-flight hyperfine spectroscopy of (anti)hydrogen for tests of CPT symmetry

A measurement of the ground-state hyperfine structure (GS-HFS) of antihydrogen can become one of the most sensitive tests of CPT symmetry on an absolute scale due to the fact that it is a small quantity on the energy scale and can be measured to very high precision. For this reason the ASACUSA collaboration at the Antiproton Decelerator of CERN has chosen to perform a measurement of GS-HFS using a polarized antihydrogen beam. A major mile stone towards a hyperfine measurement was the first observation of a beam of antihydrogen atoms produced ina so-called CUSP trap in a field-free region by ASACUSA. Similar arguments regarding the absolute sensitivity of CPT tests have been brought forward by A. Kostelecky et al. within their Standard Model Extension (SME). Their model is based on Lorentz-invariance violation and also has consequences for the GS-HFS of ordinary hydrogen, notably sidereal and annual variations, which have been tested using hydrogen masers to high precision. In a recent extension to the non-minimal SME, further coefficients are found that depend on the orientation of the applied static magnetic field in the laboratory for some of the observable HFS transitions. ASACUSA has used the hyperfine spectrometer line originally developed for antihydrogen spectroscopy with a source of cold polarized hydrogen atoms and measured the (F=1, M=0) to (0,0) transition to few ppb and plans to extend the measurements to the (F=1, M=1) to (0,0) transition which - within the SME - is sensitive to Lorentz and CPT violation. This talk discusses the results and prospects of in-beam GS-HFS measurements using the ASACUSA apparatus in both hydrogen and antihydrogen.

Orateur: Prof. Eberhard Widmann (Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, Austria)

Transparents Widmann-Antihydrogen-Vietnam2016.pdf

14:45 Antimatter Gravity Measurement with Cold Antihydrogen The AEGIS Experiment

Antimatter experiments conducted at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN address the fundamental questions why primordial antimatter is not observed in the present universe. The AEgIS collaboration aims at performing tests of the weak equivalent principle (WEP) by measuring the gravitational acceleration of antihydrogen atoms in the Earth’s gravitational field that are horizontally emitted from a Penning trap. The antihydrogen atoms will be produced via resonant charge exchange of Rydberg positronium and antiprotons at temperatures potentially determined by the recoil limit of the constituents. To prepare an ensemble of cold antihydrogen with a narrow velocity spread we plan to extend the existing electron cooling mechanism of antiprotons by laser-cooling techniques of negative C2- molecules in a Penning trap in order to sympathetically cool antiprotons to the mK regime. The generation of cold antihydrogen atoms can ultimately also be used for precision spectroscopy experiments of electromagnetic interaction as a test of CPT symmetry. In this presentation the status of the AEgIS experiment and the feasibility of sympathetic cooling using C2- molecules will be reviewed.

Orateur: Dr Sebastian Gerber (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Transparents HISEBSM_2016_conference_Gerber_PDF.pdf

15:30 Break

15:45 First detection of a black hole merger with gravitational wave

On September 14 2015 the two LIGO detectors registered at almost the same time an event consistent with gravitational wave emission by the merger of two black holes. The reconstructed waveform of the signal shows that the system was located at a distance of approximately 400 Mpc, with constituent masses of 36 and 29 M_sun. The final object is consistent with a mass of 62 M_sun and then revealed that an estimated 3 M_sun was radiated in gravitational wave emission. This detection, 100 years after its theoretical prediction and after 50 years of experimental quest, opens a new way to observe powerful astrophysical sources. In this talk I will describe shortly the detectors and the main information we obtain from this observation.

Orateur: Dr Nicolas Leroy (Laboratoire de l’accélérateur linéaire d’Orsay, Orsay, France)

Transparents pres_GW_HISEBSM.pdf

mar. 2 août

09:00 → 12:15 Neutrinos

09:00 The Neutrino Anomalies

The neutrino anomalies generally refer to the hints from appearance and disappearance experiments for eV-scale neutrinos. In the 1990s, the LSND experiment reported a neutrino appearance oscillation signal that, when viewed together with the solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillation experiments, is in conflict with the Standard Model expectation of three neutrino flavors. The follow-on experiment to LSND, MiniBooNE, reported inexplicable excess events at low energies, but not at high energies. More recently, two additional low-energy neutrino disappearance anomalies have been reported. These are the Reactor anomaly, in which the number of observed reactor antineutrinos is fewer than expected in all short-baseline experiments, and the Gallium anomaly, in which the number of neutrinos from radioactive sources detected in gallium detectors is fewer than expected. If these anomalies are neutrino oscillation phenomena, they require the existence of ~1eV sterile neutrinos that do not interact via the normal Standard Model electroweak interaction. In this talk I review the current neutrino anomalies. I discuss the uncertainties involved and possible standard model explanations, with an emphasis on the Reactor anomaly. Finally, I will briefly summarize the needs for and the planned new very short-baseline experiments designed to confirm or refute the existence of sterile neutrinos.

Orateur: Dr Anna Hayes-Sterbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA)

Transparents HAYES-Neutrino-Anomalies-Vietnam.pdf

09:45 Sterile Neutrino searches: a challenge forehead the Standard Model

Despite a long history the sterile neutrino issue is still currently a very open issue. On top of the incredible window it could be open by its discovery, it constitutes a demanding part for the assessment of a neutrino global picture. Through the presentation of the different results collected so far, in particular at the eV mass scale, a critical illustration of what has to be expected in the near future is given.

Orateur: Dr Luca Stanco (INFN Padova, Padova, Italy)

Transparents Stanco-HseBSM-Steriles-Acc.pdf

10:30 Break

10:45 Status of the SOLID Experiment

The aim of the SoLid experiment is to provide the precise measurement of the anti-neutrino energy spectrum from a highly enriched uranium reactor, and then, perform sensitive search for short baseline neutrino oscillation. The objectives are to resolve the reactor neutrino anomaly and to test in fine the light sterile neutrino hypothesis. For this purpose, the SoLid collaboration are using a novel, highly segmented, composite scintillator detector design to measure the anti-neutrino energy spectrum between 5 and 10 m from a compact reactor core. This project is driven by an international collaboration gathering 11 institutes and about 55 physicists. These measurements will be performed over the next five years at the BR2 reactor at SCK-CEN in Mol, Belgium. The collaboration already built and deployed a small 288 kg module of the detector at the BR2 reactor. Its purpose was to demonstrate the effectiveness of using the detector's novel design in selecting the inverse beta decay events from the high rate of backgrounds events. The detector module was operational during the February 2015 BR2 reactor cycle. After a short review of the detector design, this talk will present the preliminary results of this successful data taking. It will ended with the presentation of the SoLid Phase I scheduled to begin at the end of this year.

Orateur: Prof. Benoit Guillon (Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France)

Transparents HiSEBSM_Solid_guillon.pdf

11:30 The Stereo experiment: search for a sterile neutrino

Past reactor and source experiments have observed deficits of neutrinos, with respect to the expected rates, that could be explained by the existence of a sterile neutrino at the 1 eV mass scale. The Stereo experiment has been designed to test this hypothesis by searching for a new oscillation pattern at short distance from the compact reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France. The chosen detection strategy is the measurement of relative distortions of the neutrino energy spectrum as a function of the distance, using 6 identical cells filled with Gd-loaded liquid scintillator. The installation of the experiment has started and first data are expected this autumn. The talk will first introduce the motivations for a sterile neutrino. Then, the experiment will be presented, together with the first results of the detector characterization. Finally, the sensitivity to the parameter space of the sterile neutrino will be discussed.

Orateur: Dr Jacob Lamblin (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire et de Cosmologie Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France)

Transparents HISEBSM2016_lamblin.pdf

14:00 → 14:45 Parity Violation

14:00 Light shifts induced by atomic parity nonconserving transitions in ultracold Fr for probing physics beyond the Standard Model

The two sources of parity nonconservation (PNC) in atomic systems are the neutral current weak (NCW) interactions due to the exchange of the Z boson between the nucleus and the electrons and the nuclear anapole moment. The NCW interactions can give rise to nuclear spin independent (NSI) as well as nuclear spin dependent (NSD) PNC, while the interaction of the nuclear anapole moment with the electrons results in PNC of only the NSD kind. NSI PNC is a probe of new physics beyond the Standard Model and NSD PNC from the nuclear anapole moment provides important information about PNC in nuclei. We report precise calculations of NSI and NSD PNC transition amplitudes of Fr atom, and the detection scheme of this effect as light shifts induced by E2 and PNC-E1 transitions using ultracold Fr atom [2]. We consider the light shifts for all the magnetic sublevels, which are determined by angular factors for E2 and PNC E1 transitions [3]. These light shifts will be useful to experimentally study the NSI PNC in Frin CYRIC, Tohoku University in the near future to probe new physics beyond the Standard Model. [1] C. S. Wood, S. C. Bennett, D. Cho, B. P. Masterson, J. L. Roberts, C. E. Tanner, and C. E. Wieman, Science 275, 1759 (1997). [2] B. K. Sahoo, T. Aoki, B. P. Das, and Y. Sakemi, Phys. Rev. A 93, 032520 (2016). [3] T. Aoki et al., to be submitted.

Orateur: Dr Aoki Takatochi (The University of Tokyo Institute of Physics Tokyo, Japan)

Transparents 20160802aoki.pdf

14:45 → 17:30 Electric Dipole Moments

14:45 EDM and Radioactive Nuclei

Many systems are used to search for a non-zero electric dipole moment such as atoms, molecules or neutron. The existence of static T-odd and P-odd moments of a nucleus can arise from T and P violating nucleon-nucleon interactions. Measuring the EDM of an atom, the sensitivity on those interactions depends on the nuclear structure. In particular pear-shaped nuclei are predicted to be good candidates.

Orateur: Prof. Stephanie Roccia (Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière Orsay, France)

Transparents S_Roccia.pdf

15:30 Break

15:45 Search for the permanent electric dipole moment of laser cooled francium atom

Permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) of elementary particles are good candidates to search for the combined charge conjugation and parity symmetry (CP) violation. At the Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center at Tohoku University, an experiment to search for the EDM of the electron using francium (Fr) atoms is promoted. The progress and the present status of the facility will be presented.

Orateur: Mme Aiko Uchiyama (Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center (CYRIC), Tohoku University Sendai, Myagi, Japan)

Transparents Slides_2016_Vietnam_uchiyama.pdf

16:30 Electron Electric Dipole Moment in diatomic molecules

Polar diatomic molecules such as ThO and ThF+ are promising systems in the search of the electron Electric Dipole Moment, a possible probe of new physics beyond the Standard Model. We employ a relativistic 4-component Configuration Interaction approach to obtain the theoretical input needed by the eEDM experiment (Eeff) as well as other P and T- odd properties and the hyperfine interaction constant A|| calculated as expectation values over the wavefunction of the 3∆1 state of the eEDM molecules.

Orateur: Mme Malika Denis (Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

Transparents HiSEBSMDenis.pdf

mer. 3 août

08:30 → 12:00 Electric Dipole Moments

08:30 Research with very cold and ultra-cold neutrons at the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble

Due to their outstanding property to be storable and hence observable for long periods of time (several hundreds of seconds) in suitable material or magnetic traps, ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) with energies around 100 neV are an unique tool to study fundamental properties of the free neutron, like its beta-decay lifetime, its electric dipole moment and its wave properties. The search for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron plays a prominent role in particle physics because of its direct bearing on CP and T violation: a non-zero value of the neutron EDM would be evidence of CP and T violation. Precision measurements of the neutron lifetime provide stringent tests of the standard electroweak model as well as crucial inputs for tests of Big-Bang nucleosynthesis. Neutron lifetime can be related to CKM Matrix unitarity. Neutron lifetime also dominates the uncertainty in theoretical calculation of primordial 4He. After the observation of quantum states of UCN in the gravitational potential of the Earth, a new powerful resonance spectroscopy technique has been established. It allows precision experiments as tests of the equivalence principle and Newton’s gravity law at the micrometre scale. In this talk, the ILL will be briefly introduced before recent ILL experiments linked to these fundamental questions are presented and a brief outlook is given.

Orateur: Dr Peter Geltenbort (Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France)

09:30 Search for the neutron electric dipole moment using ultra cold neutrons at PSI

Why is there so much matter and so little anti-matter observed in our Universe? One necessary condition to create a matter/antimatter asymmetric universe from symmetric starting conditions is a sufficient strong source of charge/parity violation (CPV) in the fundamental physics describing the early universe. A discovery of a nEDM value larger than the SM prediction (≤1E-31 ecm) would be the indication for a yet unknown source of CPV and might help to explain the matter/anitmatter asymmetry of the Universe, or shed light on to the strong CP problem. At the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland a collaboration of 14 institutions is searching for the nEDM using ultracold neutrons (UCN). We intend to improve the current upper limit by the RAL/Sussex/ILL collaboration, dn< 3E-26 ecm @90% C.L. [J.M. Pendlebury et al. PRD 92, 092003 (2015)], by using the same but improved and upgraded spectrometer connected to the solid-deuterium-based UCN source. In my talk I will present the current status of data-taking and will discuss the most relevant challenges on the path to a new limit.

Orateur: Dr Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland)

Transparents nEDM@PSI_Vietnam.pdf

10:15 Break

10:30 Fundamental physics with Ultracold Neutrons in the U.S.A.

Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) are defined operationally to be neutrons of sufficiently low kinetic energies that they can be confined in a material bottle, corresponding to kinetic energies below about 340 neV. UCNs are playing increasingly important roles in the studies of fundamental physical interactions. There is an active research program of research using UCNs in the US. In this talk, I will give an overview of the fundamental physics with Ultracold Neutrons in the U.S.

Orateur: Dr Takeyasu Ito (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA)

jeu. 4 août

09:00 → 09:45 Neutrinos

09:00 Double beta decay and the SuperNEMO project

The talk is an introduction to the study of double beta decay. It will discuss the present status of the dedicated experiments and will briefly introduce the SuperNEMO project.

Orateur: Dr Dominique Durand (Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France)

Transparents hisebsm_2016_durand.pdf

09:45 → 17:15 Rare Decays, Precision Muon Experiments

09:45 Search for K+->pi+nunu and exotics at NA62

The K+->pi+nunu decay is one of the theoretically cleanest meson decay where to look for indirect effects of new physics complementary to LHC searches. The new experimental setup used by the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS since 2014 is designed to measure the branching ratio of this decay with 10% precision. NA62 took data with the new setup in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The quality of data acquired in view of the final measurement will be presented. Prospects for other rare and forbidden decays and exotic processes will also be reviewed.

Orateur: Dr Angela Romano (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Transparents AngelaRomano_HISEBSM.pdf

10:30 break

10:45 Nucleon Decay Searches in Super-Kamiokande

One of general feature of Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) is their prediction of the instability of nucleons by baryon number violating decays. Therefore, nucleon decay search is one of keys to open new door beyond the Standard Model.The Super-Kamiokande detector is the best detector to search for nucleon decays. In this talk, I'll report the latest results from Super-Kamiokande.

Orateur: Prof. Makoto Miura (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo Hida, Japan)

Transparents HSEBSM2016-pdecay-miura.pdf

13:00 Muonium

Muonium is a hydrogen-like atom consisting of a positive muon and an electron. Precision spectroscopy of its ground state hyperfine splitting (HFS) is the most rigorous test of bound-state QED and the most precise determination of the muon mass. At J-PARC, MuSEUM collaboration intends to improve the precision of muonium HFS by one order of magnitude relatively to the most recent experiment. In this talk, experimental overview and preliminary result of the first physics-run are to be reported

Orateur: M. Sotahro Kanda (The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan)

13:45 The Muon g-2 experiment at FNAL

The new Muon g-2 experiment (E989) at Fermilab aims to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of muon, aµ, to an unprecedented precision of 140 parts per billion. The basic principles of the experiment are to store a muon beam in a ring magnet and to detect the decay positrons with calorimeters installed around the ring. Two key values needed for the extraction of aµ are the anomalous precession frequency of muon a in the magnet and the average magnetic field experienced by the muon beam. An overview of how we measure these two values will be presented.

Orateur: Dr Kim Siang Khaw (Physic Department, Physics and Astronomy, University of Washington Seattle, USA)

Transparents HISEBSM_Khaw_20160731_Submit.pdf

14:30 Break

14:45 The COMET Experiment: Searching for Muon-to-Electron Conversion

Observing Charged Lepton Flavour Violation would be a clear sign of physics Beyond the Standard Model. The COMET experiment is one of a handful hoping to measure such a process with an intense muon beam. COMET will search for COherent Muon to Electron Transitions, where a muon converts to an electron in the presence of an atomic nucleus without neutrino emission. Currently under construction at J-PARC, Japan, Phase-I is set to start data-taking in JFY 2018 and should improve the current limits on mu-e conversion by two orders of magnitude. Phase-II should then follow in the early 2020s and push the sensitivity by a further two orders of magnitude. In this talk I present an overview of the experiment design and the current status of preparations for Phase-I running.

Orateur: M. Benjamin Krikler (Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom)

Transparents BKrikler_160804_HiSEBSM_COMET-reduced.pdf

15:30 Search for New Physics via a Precision Measurement of Γ (Ke2) / Γ (Kμ2) at J-PARC

The TREK (E36) collaboration has performed a precision measurement of the branching ratio, RK = Γ(K+ → e+ + νe)/Γ(K+ → μ+ + νμ) to test lepton universality and search for new physics beyond the Standard Model(SM). The SM prediction is extremely precise, (2.477 ± 0.001) × 10−5, and any deviation from this value would clearly indicate the existence of New Physics beyond the SM. A recent SUSY calculation allows a shift from the SM value up to the % level.

Orateur: Prof. Michael Hasinoff (Dept of Physics & Astronomy University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada)

Transparents Hasinoff-VN-v1b.pdf

ven. 5 août

09:00 → 15:30 Nuclear Beta Decays and Correlations

09:00 Measurements of beta energy spectra in nuclear beta decay

Precision measurements in neutron and nuclear decays have played a crucial role in the development of the vector-axial-vector (V-A) theory of the weak interactions, which is contained today in the standard electroweak model (SM). Experiments in nuclear beta decay offer today a sensitive window to search for physics beyond the SM which is complementary to direct searches carried out at high energy colliders. The focus of many precision experiments in nuclear beta decay today is to measure the shape of the beta particle energy spectrum in Gamow-Teller decays, in order to extract the Fierz interference term. Such an observable is sensitive to contributions of so-called exotic tensor interactions which could arise by the presence of new interaction bosons. The Fierz term is attractive since it is linear in those exotic couplings. In this presentation I will describe new efforts in nuclear beta decay to reach new levels of sensitivity by using a new technique that eliminates the instrumental effect of backscattering of electron on the detectors. I will illustrate the first application of the technique in 6He and 20F decays and present the status of the data analysis.

Orateur: Prof. Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East-Lansing, Michigan, USA)

Transparents 16-08-HSEBSM-Naviliat.pdf

10:00 High Precision Nuclear Beta Spectroscopy

A precise understanding of the beta spectrum shape proves an indispensable tool in the pursuit of Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. It opens up possibilities for scalar and tensor current searches and allows a study of nuclear structure dependent effects through the weak magnetism interaction [N. Severijns et al. Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 991-1040 (2006)]. The latter is a contamination of the strong interaction, and forms an essential component in the analysis of the reactor antineutrino anomaly [P. Huber PRC 84, 024617 (2011)]. To this end, high precision measurements are being taken at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a 4 pi magnetic spectrometer using high performance, position sensitive silicon detectors. Further, it employs ultra-thin source foils, thereby minimising harmful scattering effects. Combined with precise timing, it enables full reconstruction of backscattered events including energy and angular distributions. Theoretical investigations have been performed to analytically describe all known correction factors on the beta spectrum shape to below the per mille level, including atomic and molecular effects. This allows for the most precise extraction of (B)SM physics from the beta spectrum shape to date. Preliminary results will be presented.

Orateur: M. Leendert Hayen (KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica Heverlee, Belgium)

Transparents HiSEBSM_Leendert_Hayen.pdf

10:45 Break

11:00 Testing CVC and CKM unitarity via superallowed nuclear beta decay

Very precise measurements in nuclei can offer demanding tests of the Standard Model. In particular, superallowed nuclear beta-decay between 0+ analogue states is a sensitive probe of the vector part of the weak interaction, with the established strength – or F t value – of each such transition being a direct measure of the vector coupling constant, GV. Each transition’s F t value depends on the half-life of the parent nucleus as well as on the Q-value and branching ratio for the transition of interest. It also depends on small (~1%) transition-dependent theoretical corrections, of which the most sensitive accounts for isospin symmetry breaking. The most recent survey of world superallowed-decay data [1] includes 222 individual measurements of comparable precision obtained from 177 published references; it establishes the F t values of 14 separate superallowed transitions to a precision of order 0.1% or better. These results, which cover a wide range of parent nuclei from 10C to 74Rb, constitute a very robust data set. Excellent consistency among the average F t-values for all 14 transitions – an expected consequence of the conservation of vector current (CVC) – confirms the validity of the correction terms; and recent measurements [2], which closely compare pairs of mirror superallowed transitions with A = 26, 34 and 38, further support that validity. With CVC upheld, the average result for GV in turn yields the value of Vud, the up-down quark mixing element of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. Not only is this the most precise determination of Vud, it is the most precise result for any element in the CKM matrix. The CKM matrix is a central pillar of the Standard Model and, although the model does not predict values for the matrix elements, it demands that the matrix itself be unitary. The experimental value for Vud obtained from superallowed beta-decay leads to the most demanding test available of CKM unitarity. Neutron beta decay can also be used to determine Vud, but experimental problems have so far limited the precision that can be attributed to averages obtained from neutron world data. Though substantially less precise, neutron data yield a value for Vud that is statistically consistent with the value from superallowed decays. Prospects for future improvements to Vud will be discussed. [1] J.C. Hardy and I.S. Towner, Phys. Rev. C 91, 025501 (2015). [2] H.I. Park et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 102502 (2014); and to be published.

Orateur: Prof. John Hardy (Cyclotron Institute Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)

Transparents Hardy_rencontre_2016_talk.pdf

12:00 D correlation measurement in the Beta decay of trapped and polarized ions

In this talk we discuss the potentials of a new technique of optical orientation of radioactive ions trapped in an open Paul trap, permitting to reach a very high degree of polarization, for Beta decay experiments. More precisely, laser polarization of the alkali-earth ions 23Mg+ and 39Ca+ in a Paul trap and detection of the emitted electron and recoil ion shall enable the measurement of the so-called D correlation. D is a triple correlation of the form J (pe x pv) with pe and pv being respectively the momenta of the electron and the neutrino, and J the nuclear spin. The D correlation violates Time reversal. While such violation is predicted to occur in the Standard Model via the quark mixing mechanism, experimental constraints are 5 to 10 orders of magnitude lower [1].There is a large window in which D, R correlations and neutron EDM searches can contribute to the search for other sources of CP violation at a much higher level, which could explain for example the large matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in the Universe. The best constraints so far on D arise from the neutron decay and are of the order of 2×10-4 on coupling constants of interactions violating T [2]. Lower constraints have been obtained from hyperon, Kaon, and nuclear decays. The latter were derived from the decay of 19Ne yielding a constraint of 6×10-4, limited by statistics [3]. With the expected rates from the upgraded SPIRAL facility at GANIL, an experiment aiming at D-correlation measurement with an unprecedented sensitivity of the below 10-4 can be conceived. It is envisaged to perform a proof-of-principle of the laser polarization method using the laser systems of IGISOL at JYFL [4], together with an optimized trapping setup inspired by the one of LPCTrap [5]. [1]: P. Herczeg and I.B. Khriplovich, Phys. Rev. D56 (1997) 80. [2]: T. E. Chupp et al., Phys. Rev. C 86 (2012) 035505. [3]: F. P. Calaprice, Hyp. Interact. 22 (1985) 83 [4]: I. D. Moore et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B, 317(2013)208. [5] : E. Liénard et al., Hyperfine Interact. 236 (2015) 1 and references therein.

Orateur: Dr Pierre Delahaye (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, GANIL, Caen, France)

14:00 Probing fundamental symmetries via precision correlation measurements of Beta decay.

Nuclear β decay has a long-standing history of shaping and testing the standard model of particle physics, and it continues to this day with elegant, ultra-precise low-energy nuclear measurements. Experiments observing the angular correlations between the electron, neutrino and recoil momenta following nuclear β decay can be used to search for exotic currents contributing to the dominant (V − A) structure of the weak interaction. Precision measurements of the correlation parameters to would be sensitive to 0.1% (or meaningfully constrain) new physics, complementing other searches at large-scale facilities like the LHC. A summary of the correlation experiments in progress will be presented, with an emphasis on the atom- and ion-trap programs at Triumf and the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M University respectively.

Orateur: Prof. Dan Melconian (Cyclotron Institute Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)

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14:45 Measurement of the β Asymmetry Parameter in 35Ar Decay with a Laser Polarized Beam.

Over the years, a large set of measurements and theoretical calculations have been performed, leading to the corrected Ft-values for the superallowed pure Fermi transitions. The weighted mean from these values leads to a high precision value for the Vud quark mixing matrix element, i.e. Vud = 0.97425(22) [1]. In combination with significant advances in the determination of the Vus matrix element from Kaon decay [2], this has led to a very high precision test of the unitarity of this matrix and subsequently to strong limits on several types of new physics beyond the Standard Model [3, 4]. Another source to address Vud is provided by the mirror transitions between isospin T=1/2 states [5]. Here, similar to the Fermi -transitions, one has to determine the Ft-value [6] but one has also to measure the ratio between the Fermi and the Gamow-Teller strengths, by e.g. performing a β-ν correlation or β asymmetry measurement. Using data readily available in the literature from experiments that were not originally performed for this purpose, a value of Vud = 0.9717(17) was obtained [5]. Dedicated studies of these mirror-decays can significantly improve the precision on this value, and at the same time contribute to the ongoing study of the isospin symmetry breaking corrections, which are often larger for the mirror-transitions. Recently, a critical survey [7] has shown that the measurement of the Some years ago asymmetry parameter, A, in the mirror decay of 35Ar to the 35Cl ground state (gs.) is the most sensitive among all β-ν correlation and β asymmetry parameter measurements for the mirror decays. Indeed, a measurement of the asymmetry parameter A in the gs. to gs. positron decay of 35Ar, with a relative precision of 0.5%, would yield a highly competitive value for Vud which will be the most precise among mirror transitions. This talk will present the ongoing preparations for an accepted experiment at ISOLDE, CERN (IS601, [8]) aiming at measuring A(35Ar) at this level of precision. The laser polarized beam will be provided by the new VITO beam line [9] that will be commissioned in September 2016 and which will provide both the required intensity and purity to achieve the 0.5% precision on A during a physics run planned at a later stage. The talk will also detail the experimental technique used to extract the asymmetry parameter consisting in the implantation of the polarized beam into a cooled crystal host surrounded by a holding magnetic field and followed by the simultaneous measurement of both the 35Ar transition to the g.s. and to the first excited state of 35Cl through a β-γ coincidence detection setup. [1] Hardy JC, Towner IS. Phys. Rev. C 79 055502 (2009) [2] Beringer J, et al. (Particle Data Group). Phys. Rev. D 86 010001 (2012) [3] Towner IS, Hardy JC. Phys. Rev. C 82 065501 (2010) [4] Bazavov A, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 112001 (2014) [5] Naviliat-Cuncic O, Severijns N. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 142302 (2009) [6] Severijns N, Tandecki M, Phalet T, Towner IS. Phys. Rev. C 78 055501 (2008) [7] Severijns N, Naviliat-Cuncic O. Phys. Scr. T 152 014018 (2013) [8] Velten P., et al., Tech. Rep. CERN-INTC-2014-062. INTC-P-426 [9] M. Stachura, et. al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. B 376 (2016) 369-373

Orateur: Dr Phillipe Velten (KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Heverlee, Belgium)

15:30 → 16:15 Concluding remarks

Pr. Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic, NSL MSU, East Lansing, USA.