Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the Week of April 5th through April 12th, 2009
Monday, April 6th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
- Passover
Friday, April 10th, 2009
- Good Friday
- What's so Cool about Ultra-Cold Neutrons
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Speaker: Brad Filippone, Caltech
- Abstract: Ultra-Cold Neutrons (UCN) are neutrons with small enough kinetic energy that they can be trapped in material bottles or by modest magnetic fields. With kinetic energies below 300 nano eV, UCN are ideal for studying the fundamental properties of the neutron. Precision studies of neutron decay can explore physics beyond the Standard Electroweak Model. In addition, highly sensitive searches for an Electric Dipole Moment of the neutron probe possible new sources of CP violation (Charge-conjugation and Parity) which could be responsible for the dominance of matter over antimatter observed in the Universe.
- Host: Ramsey-Musolf