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Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP)


LTP Colloquium

Testing the Standard Model with Cold Neutrons

Friday, June 25, 2004, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium

Prof. T. Soldner, ILL

Abstract:
The Standard Model of particle physics can be tested by precision measurements with neutrons. Recent achievements and projects of particle physics with cold neutrons at the Institut Laue Langevin will be presented: Measurements of correlations in neutron decay permitting searches for right handed contributions to the weak interaction, to determine the quark mixing matrix element V_ud, and to test time-reversal invariance. The electric dipole moment of the neutron is another sensitive probe for time-reversal violation. A new project for its measurement based on the strong interplanar electric fields in some crystals will be discussed.