UK Positron Meeting 2024

from Thursday 4 April 2024 (13:00) to Friday 5 April 2024 (13:20)
University College London (Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Apr 2024
5 Apr 2024
AM
10:00 --- Morning coffee ---
10:30
Material Science - Mark Law (University of Aberdeen) (until 12:30)
10:30 Laser-driven positrons sources for Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy - Temour Foster (Queen's University Belfast)  
11:00 Detection and Identification of Vacancy Defects in Antimony Selenide - Prof. David Keeble (University of Dundee)  
11:30 Vacancy defect identification in lead halide perovskite materials - Mr Aryaveer Singh (Physics, SUPA, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, United Kingdom)  
12:00 Neural Network Variational Monte Carlo for Positronic Chemistry - Gino Cassella (Imperial College)  
PM
13:00
Welcome desk (until 13:25)
13:25
Welcome words - David B Cassidy (until 13:30)
13:30
Positronium Physics - David B Cassidy (until 15:30)
13:30 Measurement of the positronium $2\,^3\mathrm{P}_J$ fluorescence decay rate - Rebecca J Daly (University College London)  
14:00 Positronium density measurement technique using Polaritonics - Erika Cortese (University of Southampton)  
14:30 Similarity of the near-threshold cross-sections for positronium formation and photoionisation in polyatomic molecules - Gleb Gribakin (Queen's University Belfast)  
15:00 Multiple Compton scattering of entangled photons produced by ground-state parapositronium disintegration - Dr Peter Caradonna (University of York)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Plasma related Physics - Michael Charlton (Swansea University) (until 18:00)
16:00 Positron bunches & electron plasmas in supported & levitated dipole traps - Adam Deller (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik)  
16:30 Sympathetically cooled positrons for enhancement of antihydrogen production rate - Maria Beatriz Gomes Goncalves (Swansea University (GB))  
17:00 Sources of positrons and protons - Alina Weiser (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
17:30 The ASACUSA Cusp experiment - Andreas Lanz (UCL - Department of Physics and Astronomy)  
18:00
Poster Session (until 20:00) (E3/7)
18:00 Laser-driven positrons sources for Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy - Temour Foster (Queen's University Belfast)  
18:00 Measuring the Orthopositronium Annihilation Decay Rate - Ivneet Bhangoo (University College London)  
18:00 Polarisation Sensitive Microwave Spectroscopy of the $2\,^3$S$_1 \rightarrow 2\,^{2S+1}$P$_1 (S = 0, 1)$ Transitions in Positronium - Ross E. Sheldon (UCL)  
18:00 Status of laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium at CERN - Masaki Hori (Imperial College London)  
18:20 Positronium spectroscopy with a beam of excited-state atoms - Donovan Newson  
18:40 A scheme for testing antimatter gravity with positronium using Rydberg atom interferometry - Stephen Hogan  
12:30
Closing remarks - David B Cassidy (until 12:45)