GPPU Seminar

Date

14:00-16:00, June 29th, 2017

Place

Room 745, Science Complex B (H-03) map

Abstract

The High Intensity Proton Accelerator complex HIPA at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland provides a 1.4 MW beam to targets and produces the highest intensities of low momentum pions, muons and ultracold neutrons. These are the lightest unstable particles of their kind and can be used in high-precision experiments at the boundary of particle, nuclear and atomic physics. The talk's focus is on muons and neutrons. They permit precision measurements of parameters of the theory and tests of fundamental concepts and symmetries. Some measurements at low energies are sensitive to mass scales of hypothetical, heavy particles exceeding the reach of the highest energy colliders. Some can be used to search for yet unknown forces and hypothetical, very light particles with unprecedented sensitivity. Slow particles offer considerable advantages and new techniques are being developed to increase their yield.

Point

GSP 1