Name: The Project X Physics Study
Start: 2012-06-14T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2012-06-23T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The Project X Physics Study

from Thursday, 14 June 2012 (08:00) to Saturday, 23 June 2012 (18:00)

Monday, 11 June 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Young-Kee Kim (FNAL)

09:10 Charge - Robert Tschirhart (Fermilab)

09:30 Physics at the Intensity Frontier - Yuval Grossman (Cornell University)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Atrium, Wilson Hall
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Lattice QCD - Ruth Van de Water (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:00 Neutron-antineutron Oscillation Theory - Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Cafeteria, Atrium, Wilson Hall
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Neutron-antineutron oscillation experiments - William Michael Snow (Indiana U.)

14:30 Challenges and R&D issues for n-nbar detection - Geoffrey GREENE

15:00 Time of flight - Bob Wagner (Argonne National Laboratory)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Atrium, Wilson Hall
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Muon physics - Ks Babu (Oklahoma State)

16:30 Muon experiments - Robert Bernstein (Fermilab)

17:00 Calorimetry - David Hitlin (Caltech)

17:30 Tracking - Jack Ritchie (University of Texas at Austin)
18:30

18:30 - 20:00
Room: WH15N
Friday, 15 June 2012
08:20
08:20 - 10:00
Contributions

08:20 Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Mike Shaevitz (Columbia University)

08:50 Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Mary Bishai (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:20 Neutrino Detectors - Heather Ray
10:00 PXPS Group Photo
PXPS Group Photo
10:00 - 10:10
Room: steps in front of Wilson Hall

10:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 - 10:40
Room: Atrium, Wilson Hall
10:40
10:40 - 12:10
Contributions

10:40 The Intensity Frontier at Snowmass 2013 - Hendrik Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:10 New prospects and challenges for large proton decay detectors - Ed Kearns (Boston University)

11:30 Kaon physics - Douglas Bryman (University of British Columbia)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:30
Room: Cafeteria, Atrium, Wilson Hall
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 Hadronic physics experiments - Paul Reimer (ANL)

14:10 Electric Dipole Moments - Brad Filippone (CalTech)

14:50 Neutrino Theory - Manfred Lindner (MPI Heidelberg)
15:30 Wine and Cheese
Wine and Cheese
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Wilson Hall 2nd floor crossover
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Project X: Accelerator Goals and Challenges - Stephen Holmes (Fermilab)
Saturday, 16 June 2012
09:00 joint with Muons
joint with Muons
09:00 - 10:30
Room: WH8X Hornets nest
Contributions

09:00 A Sensitive Storage Ring Proton EDM experiment at FNAL - Yannis K Semertzidis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:30 Theory of EDMs - Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)

10:00 EDM LHC EDM - Kfir Blum (Institute for Advanced Study)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 European Program - Andre Rubbia

09:45 NuSTORM - Alan Bross
09:00 - 10:30
Room: WH3NE Conjectorium
Contributions

09:00 Theoretical motivation for neutron-antineutron oscillations

09:25 New processes at LHC and neutron-antineutron oscillations - Ilia Gogoladze

09:40 Experimental searches for neutron-antineutron oscillations in nuclei - Ed Kearns (Boston University)

10:00 Neutron-antineutron oscillations vs nuclei stability - Arkady Vainshtein (University of Minnesota)

10:15 Future neutron-antineutron intranuclear searches vs vacuum oscillations - Yuri Kamyshkov (University of Tennessee)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Atrium, Wilson Hall
11:00 joint with Muons
joint with Muons
11:00 - 12:30
Room: WH8X Hornet's Nest
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - David Hitlin (Caltech)

11:10 MEG Calorimeter experience and upgrade - William Molzon (University of California, Irvine)

11:30 mu to e gamma (converted), eee - Fritz DeJongh (Fermilab)

11:55 Mu2e calorimeter design and extrapolation - David Hitlin (Caltech)
11:00 - 12:50
Room: WH2NE Snake Pit
Contributions

11:00 PMT response studies - Sean Grullon (Penn)

11:15 Light Collectors for Water Cherenkov - Stefano Perasso (Drexel University)

11:30 PMT pressure tests - Jiaje Ling (BNL)

11:45 LAPPD R&D status - Andrey Elagin

12:00 Water soluble scintillator - Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:15 Generator for antineutron-carbon annihilation - Ken Ganezer (CSUDH)
EDMs
EDMs
11:00 - 12:30
Room: WH2SE Comitium
Contributions

11:00 EDM of the nucleon and light nuclei in Chiral Effective Theory - Emanuele Mereghetti (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:30 Neutron EDM from Lattice QCD - Eigo Shintani (RIKEN-BNL)

12:00 Neutron Electric Dipole Moment in the Standard Model and beyond from Lattice QCD - Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 LBNE plans - James Strait (FNAL)

11:45 Hyper-K status - Masato Shiozawa
11:00 - 12:30
Room: WH2NW Black Hole
11:00 - 12:30
Room: WH10NW West Wing
Contributions

11:00 Tracking Requirements in rare K decay experiments - Jack Ritchie (University of Texas at Austin)

11:30 Mu2e Tracker

12:00 Straw Tracking for G-2
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Cafeteria, Atrium, Wilson Hall
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: WH2SE Comitium
Contributions

14:00 A concept for intense yields of Rn, Fr, and Ra isotopes at Project X - Jerry Nolen (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 Search for the EDM of Ra-225 - Matthew Dietrich (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

15:00 Discussion: Fundamental Symmetries and EDM Prospects at Project X - Tim Chupp (University of Michigan)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: WH8X Hornet's Nest
Contributions

14:00 Stage 1 CW Linac and the Muon Campus - Chris Polly (Fermilab) Marc Kaducak (Fermilab)

14:50 Cooling Channel Optics - James Maloney (Northern Illinois University)
14:00 - 15:45
Contributions

14:00 Systematics in LBL experiments - Pilar Coloma

14:45 Scintillation Detectors - Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:15 nu-e scattering - Jaewon Park (University of Rochester)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: WH3NE Conjectorium
Contributions

14:00 Neutron-antineutron oscillations with free neutrons - W. M. Snow (Indiana University)

14:15 Leptogenesis and Fundamental Symmetries of Nature - Mu-chun Chen (University of California, Irvine)

14:35 Baryogenesis and neutron-antineutron oscillations - Ks Babu (Oklahoma State)

15:00 Skyrme supression or enhancement of neutron-antineutron oscillations - Gerben Stavenga (Fermilab)

15:15 Lattice calculations of neutron-antineutron matrix elements - Michael Buchoff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Atrium, Wilson Hall
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: WH8X Hornet's Nest
Contributions

16:00 New crystal development - Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

16:25 PbF2/SiPM beam test - Peter Winter (U of Washington)

17:00 Discussion
16:00 - 17:10
Room: WH2NE Snake Pit
Contributions

16:00 Liquid Argon R&D status - Brian Rebel (Fermilab)

16:20 Absolute calibration of SiPMs for LAr - Carlos Escobar (FERMILAB)

16:35 LAr reconstruction - Michael Kirby (FNAL)

16:50 Option for an N-Nbar annihilation detector - Rex Tayloe (Indiana University)
nucleon decay
nucleon decay
16:00 - 17:30
Room: WH2SE Comitium
Contributions

16:00 Proton Decay Matrix Elements from Lattice QCD - Taku Izubuchi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:30 Probing TeV Physics through Lattice Neutron-Decay Matrix Elements - Saul Cohen (University of Washington)

17:00 High-precision measurements of gA and gV in neutron decay - Brad Plaster (University of Kentucky)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: WH2NW Black Hole
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Michael Albrow (Fermilab)

16:15 Timing needs mu-egamma, mu-eee - Fritz DeJongh (Fermilab)

16:35 Timing detectors ATLAS forward protons - Andrew Brandt

16:55 QUARTIC for CMS protons - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: WH10NW West Wing
Contributions

16:00 Low Mass, High Speed Silicon Tracking - Ronald Lipton (Fermilab)

16:30 The NA-62 Gigatracker - Bob Velghe

17:00 Discussion
18:00

18:00 - 21:00
Room: Users' Center, Village
Sunday, 17 June 2012

08:00

08:00 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall

10:30 Coffee break (provided)
Coffee break (provided)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Atrium, Wilson Hall

11:00

11:00 - 12:30
Room: Wilson Hall

12:30 Lunch (on your own)
Lunch (on your own)
12:30 - 13:30

13:30

13:30 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall

15:30 Coffee break (provided)
Coffee break (provided)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Atrium, Wilson Hall

16:00

16:00 - 18:00
Room: Wilson Hall