Conveners
W2-4 Testing Fundamental Symmetries I (DNP-PPD) / Tests de symétries fondamentales I (DPN-PPD)
- Jenna Smith (TRIUMF)
Dr
Makoto Fujiwara
(TRIUMF)
6/17/15, 1:45 PM
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
ALPHA is an international project at CERN, with substantial Canadian involvement, whose ultimate goal is to test symmetry between matter and antimatter
via comparisons of the properties of atomic hydrogen with its antimatter counter-part,
antihydrogen. After several years of development, we have recently achieved significant milestones, including the first stable
confinement of...
Michael Gericke
(University of Manitoba)
6/17/15, 2:15 PM
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Measurements of the parity violating electron-proton and electron-electron asymmetries in the number of scattered electrons can be extremely sensitive probes for signatures of new physics beyond the standard model up to mass scales as high as $\Lambda/g \simeq 7.5~ TeV$. The basic reason for this is that the measured asymmetry has a simple and, within the Standard Model (SM), precisely...
Glen Marshall
(TRIUMF)
6/17/15, 2:45 PM
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, a_mu = (g_mu - 2)/2,
has been measured to 0.54 ppm, and when compared to the Standard
Model (SM) calculation of similar precision, a discrepancy of 3.6
sigma remains unexplained. This is perhaps a hint of new
interactions beyond the SM, stimulating much theoretical interest
and speculation. The muon g-2 experiment responsible for...
Evan Rand
(University of Guelph)
6/17/15, 3:00 PM
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
A nuclear-structure campaign has been initiated to investigate the isotopes of Hg around mass 199. To date, $^{199}$Hg provides the most stringent limit on an atomic electric dipole moment (EDM)$~$[1]. The observation of a permanent EDM would represent a clear signal of CP violation from new physics beyond the Standard Model. Theoretical nuclear-structure calculations for $^{199}$Hg are...
