School on the Physics of Electric Dipole Moments

Date: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 10:00am to Saturday, November 5, 2016 - 12:00pm
Location: 

LGRT 419B

The school is designed to provide theoretical background for EDM experimentalists. The focus will be on pedagogical lectures, informal discussions with ample time for Q&A, and simple exercises. The goal is to enable participants to obtain an up-to-date picture of the physics of EDMs, including implications for physics beyond the Standard Model and cosmology. Topics will include:

* CPV and EDMs in the Standard Model
* Beyond the Standard Model CPV and EDM implications
* Implications for baryogenesis
* The low-energy physics of EDMs: hadrons, nuclei, neutral atoms, and molecules

The primary lecturers will be Vincenzo Cirigliano (LANL) and Michael Ramsey-Musolf (UMass Amherst), with special topical guest lectures to be arranged.

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Schedule

2016-11-02
Wednesday, November 2
9:00am
Welcome

Michael Ramsey-Musolf

UMass Amherst

PDF icon EDM School Welcome
Wednesday, November 2
9:15am
Lecture I: EDM Overview & the Standard Model

Michael Ramsey-Musolf

UMass Amherst

PDF icon Lecture I
Wednesday, November 2
10:30am
Wednesday, November 2
11:00am
Lecture II: QCD Theta Term

Vincenzo Cirigliano

Los Alamos National Laboratory

PDF icon Lecture II
Wednesday, November 2
12:00pm
Wednesday, November 2
12:30pm
Wednesday, November 2
2:00pm
Lecture III: Effective Field Theory for EDMs

Vincenzo Cirigliano

Los Alamos National Laboratory

PDF icon Lecture III
Wednesday, November 2
3:00pm
Wednesday, November 2
3:30pm
Wednesday, November 2
6:30pm
2016-11-03
Thursday, November 3
9:30am
Lecture IV: EDMs Beyond the Standard Model

Michael Ramsey-Musolf

UMass Amherst

File Lecture IV
Thursday, November 3
10:30am
Thursday, November 3
11:00am
Lecture V: EDMs and the Baryon Asymmetry

Michael Ramsey-Musolf & Vincenzo Cirigliano

UMass Amherst & Los Alamos National Laboratory

File Lecture V
Thursday, November 3
12:00pm
Thursday, November 3
12:30pm
Thursday, November 3
2:30pm
Lecture VI: Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Systems

Michael Ramsey-Musolf

UMass Amherst

PDF icon Lecture VI
Thursday, November 3
3:30pm
Thursday, November 3
4:00pm
Thursday, November 3
5:30pm
2016-11-04
Friday, November 4
9:30am
Lecture VII: Hadronic Physics of EDMs

Vincenzo Cirigliano

Los Alamos National Laboratory

PDF icon Lecture VII
Friday, November 4
10:30am
Friday, November 4
11:00am
Lecture VIII: EDMs of Light Nuclei

Emanuele Mereghetti

Los Alamos National Laboratory

PDF icon Lecture VIII
Friday, November 4
12:00pm
Friday, November 4
12:30pm
Friday, November 4
2:15pm
ACFI Seminar

Felix Yu

Mainz

Friday, November 4
3:15pm
Friday, November 4
3:45pm
Lecture IX: Nuclear Schiff Moment

Jonathan Engel

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

PDF icon Lecture IX
Friday, November 4
4:45pm
Friday, November 4
6:00pm
2016-11-05
Saturday, November 5
9:30am
Lecture X: The "Big Picture"

Michael Ramsey-Musolf & Vincenzo Cirigliano

UMass Amherst & Los Alamos National Laboratory

PDF icon EDM Big Picture
Saturday, November 5
10:30am
Saturday, November 5
11:00am
Saturday, November 5
12:00pm