Antimatter and Gravitation

Europe/Paris
Description
The first international workshop on "Antimatter and Gravitation" will be held at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris on October 10-11 2011.

Its main objectives will be to review indirect experimental tests and theoretical models on a possible different behaviour of matter and antimatter with respect to gravitation, to present the experiments on the production and study of antihydrogen at CERN, and to cover the projects in preparation for a direct measurement of the gravitational effect on antimatter. Reviews on the tests of the equivalence principle and other related subjects will also be addressed. The workshop will be open to all interested physicists, an attendance of about 100 people is foreseen.

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    • 09:00 09:45
      Welcome coffee 45m
    • 09:45 10:40
      Laboratory tests of the Equivalence Principle and their implications for the gravitational properties of antimatter 55m
      Orateur: Prof. Eric Adelberger (University of Washington)
      Transparents
    • 10:40 11:20
      Atom Interferometry and the Gravitational Redshift 40m
      Orateur: Dr Luc Blanchet (CNRS-IAP, Paris)
      Slides
    • 11:20 11:40
      Cosmology of a Dirac-Milne Universe 20m
      Orateur: Dr Aurélien Benoit-Lévy (CNRS-IAP, Paris)
      Slides
    • 11:40 12:20
      MICROSCOPE, a Space Test of the Equivalence Principle 40m
      Orateur: Dr Gilles Métris (GeoAzur, Obs. Cote d'Azur)
      Slides
    • 12:20 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 40m
    • 14:00 14:40
      Antihydrogen experiments with a cusp trap (Talk canceled) 40m
      Orateur: Prof. Yasunori Yamazaki (RIKEN, Tokyo)
    • 14:40 15:20
      The Alpha collaboration 40m
      Orateur: Prof. Jeff Hangst (Aarhus)
      Slides
    • 15:20 15:40
      Coffee break 20m
    • 15:40 16:20
      Antimatter, Gravity, and Lorentz Symmetry 40m
      Orateur: Prof. Jay Tasson (Carleton College)
      Slides
    • 16:20 17:00
      Gravitation, electromagnetism, and new long-range forces 40m
      Orateur: Prof. Pierre Fayet (ENS Paris)
      Transparents
    • 17:00 17:40
      Cold atoms in gravity and microgravity 40m
      Orateur: Prof. Claus Laemmerzahl (University of Bremen)
      Slides
    • 09:00 09:40
      On our way to Antihydrogen at Rest 40m
      Orateur: Walter Oelert (Juelich)
      Transparents
    • 09:40 10:20
      Laser cooling of Antihydrogen 40m
      Orateur: Prof. Jochen Walz (University of Mainz)
      Transparents
    • 10:20 11:00
      Low Energy Antiproton Facility 40m
      Orateur: Dr Christian Carli (CERN)
      Transparents
    • 11:00 11:20
      Coffee break 20m
    • 11:20 12:00
      The AEGIS experiment 40m
      Orateur: Dr Michael Doser (CERN)
      Transparents
    • 12:00 12:40
      The GBAR project (Gravitationnal behaviour of Antihydrogen at Rest) 40m
      Orateur: Dr Patrice Pérez (CEA-Irfu, Saclay)
      Transparents
    • 12:40 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 20m
    • 14:00 14:40
      Prospects for the Antimatter Gravity Experiment at Fermilab 40m
      Orateur: Prof. Thomas Phillips (Duke University)
      Transparents
    • 14:40 15:00
      Trapped antihydrogen, CPT, and Gravity 20m
      Orateur: Dr Makoto C. Fujiwara (TRIUMF, Vancouver)
      Transparents
    • 15:00 15:40
      Gravitational quantum states of antihydrogen above a material surface 40m
      Orateur: Dr Alexei Voronin (Lebedev Institute, Moscow)
      Transparents
    • 15:40 16:00
      Coffee break 20m
    • 16:00 16:40
      Comparison of gravitational quantum states of ultracold neutrons and anti-hydrogen atoms 40m
      Orateur: Dr Valery Nesvizhevsky (ILL, Grenoble)
      Transparents
    • 16:40 17:20
      Concluding remarks 40m
      Orateur: Dr Jim Rich (CEA-Irfu, Saclay)