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Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme
Small may be beautiful (3/5)
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Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
Description
M. Davier - 10.00-11.00hrs
Besides the direct high-energy approach, particle physics frontiers can be explored by low-energy high-sensitivity experiments. These experiments, small on the scale of LHC detectors, can be very effective in reaching a sensitivity level why physics beyond the Standard Model can contribute. In these lectures we will discuss a subject of such experiments (excluding cold neutrons covered in T. Soldner’s lectures), their interplay with theory and their impact on our knowledge of new phenomena : anormalous magnetic moments of leptons, weak-electromagnetic interference at low energy and in atomic physics, searches for an electron electric dipole moment in atomic and molecular physics.
T. Soldner - 11.00-12.00hrs
Neutron particle physics happens at energies many orders of magnitude below what is delivered by accelerators. Yet it can provide important information of physics in and beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. I will discuss different experiments, their peculiarities and implications. The course of the lectures is as follows:
(1) Neutron decay in the Standard Model and its meaning for astrophysics,
(2) Symmetry tests as a quest for physics beyond the Standard Model:
additional CP violation, baryon number non-conservation and right-handed currents,
(3) Quantum states of neutrons in the gravitational field and their application in searches for new physics.
