Dr
Peter Geltenbort
(Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France)
03/08/2016 08:30
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...
Dr
Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg
(Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland)
03/08/2016 09:30
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...
Dr
Takeyasu Ito
(Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA)
03/08/2016 10:30
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...
