Bulletin of the American Physical Society
84th Annual Meeting of the APS Southeastern Section
Volume 62, Number 13
Thursday–Saturday, November 16–18, 2017; Milledgeville, Georgia
Session A2: High Intensity Frontier |
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Chair: Dr. Romulus Godang, University of South Alabama Room: MSU Building University Banquet Room B |
Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:30AM - 9:00AM |
A2.00001: Probing the Frontiers of Physics Using Muons Invited Speaker: Edmond Dukes The absence of any signature for new physics beyond the standard model at the Large Hadron Collider has left the field of elementary particle physics in a quandary. We know there is new physics out there: where best to look for it? Searches for certain rare processes provide ultra-sensitive probes for new physics and can probe mass scales unobtainable by any conceivable accelerator, present or imagined. We show how such searches can probe mass scales unobtainable by direct searches at any conceivable particle accelerator and describe an experiment, Mu2e, that intends to use a novel technique to search for new physics through lepton flavor violation in muon decays with sensitivities a factor of 10,000 over existing limits. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:00AM - 9:30AM |
A2.00002: B Physics from Belle and Prospects at Belle II Invited Speaker: Milind Purohit We present some interesting recent results from the Belle experiment and some forthcoming physics topics of interest for the Belle II experiment which will begin data taking very soon. The highlights cover B and D decays, although some related and some other results and projections will also be presented. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:30AM - 10:00AM |
A2.00003: The muon g-2 experiment: overview and prospects Invited Speaker: Dinko Pocanic The muon gyromagnetic factor $g_\mu$ has long occupied a prominent place among the observables used in precision tests of the Standard Model (SM). The current discrepancy between the SM prediction and the value measured by the Brookhaven E821 Experiment stands at about 3.5 standard deviations, with comparable experimental and theoretical uncertainties. Two new experiments, one at Fermilab and the other at J-PARC, aim to improve the experimental uncertainty by a factor of 4. Meanwhile, the SM prediction is also expected to undergo a significant increase in precision. We review the status of the Fermilab experiment E989, currently operational and undergoing commissioning. E989 will analyze 21 times more muon decays than BNL E821, and is also poised to reduce the systematic uncertainty by a factor of 3. The overall goal of E989 is to achieve the precision of 0.14 ppm for $a_\mu = (g_\mu -2)/2$. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:00AM - 10:30AM |
A2.00004: Reactor Neutrino Experiments Invited Speaker: Jonathan Link Neutrinos from nuclear reactors have had an impressive record of discovery in particle physics, from the first observation of neutrinos by Reines and Cowan in 1956, through the resolution of solar neutrino oscillations, to the measurement of the last neutrino mixing angle, $\theta_{13}$. Today, there remain many questions that can best be addressed with reactor neutrinos, including a precision determination of the solar mixing angle and a resolution of the light sterile neutrino question. This talk will focus on selected recent success and future measurements, with special attention paid to new technologies that are enabling these measurements. [Preview Abstract] |
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