[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 11:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Fri 2012-08-31 at 11:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Ruediger Picker (California Institute of Technology and Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Title:     UCN physics, going a long way

Abstract: Trapped ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) are a phantastic probe for fundamental physics of weak interaction and more: they can help us understand the Big-Bang and solar processes better, be a probe for non-Standard Model physics and have ruled out several models of theoretical physics in the last decades; higher and higher precision has been reached measuring decay correlations, the lifetime and the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron. To go further, better understanding and control of systematics and a large UCN density is necessary. The talk will present a subjective perspective on these efforts for the neutron lifetime experiment PENeLOPE at Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the SNS nEDM experiment, which both use novel approaches.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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