Conveners
Neutrons & Users 2b: Particle Physics with UCNs
- Bastian Märkisch (Physik-Department, TUM)
- Peter Fierlinger (TUM)
As one of the most important probes for physics beyond the standard model of particle physics, the field of Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) searches is very active in theory and experiments. An overview of the broader landscape will be given, and the still essential role of the neutron as a clean and comparably simple probe will be discussed, together with experimental perspectives with more...
The decay of the free neutron offers many opportunities to determine fundamental parameters in the Standard Model of particle physics, and also plays an important role in cosmology. The lifetime of the neutron is of particular importance, especially since it should be easy to measure in principle.
Even though we discovered the neutron almost a hundred years ago, experimental physicists face...
We present a resonant spectroscopy technique devoted to the study of gravitation and the related cosmological problems of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The object is a quantum mechanical wavepacket of an ultra-cold neutron, and the new method extends the techniques of Purcel, Rabi and Ramsey to neutron quantum states in the gravity potential of the Earth. The technique is named Gravity...
