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Neutron-AntiNeutron Oscillation

 

Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, Kolkata, India

July 20-22, 2011
 

Day 1 : 20-7-2011

Registration 08:45 – 09:15

Inaugural Session (09:15 -10:50)

Inauguration 09:15-09:30

Prof. Bikash Sinha, Homi Bhabha Professor, VECC

Introduction to Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation 09.30-10.10

R. Cowsik, Washington University

Status of Experimental Searches for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation 10.10-10.50

Y. Kamyshkov, University of Tennessee

Tea (10:50 – 11:10)

Session – I (11:10 – 13.10)

Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation: Motivation and Indian proposal 11:10-11:50

Utpal Sarkar, PRL, Ahmedabad

Accelerator programs in India 11:50 – 12:30

Amit Roy, IUAC, New Delhi

Accelerators at VECC 12:30 – 13:10

C. Mallick, VECC, Kolkata

 

Lunch (13.30 - 14.30)

Session – II (14.30 – 16.00)

Lab Visits 14:40 – 16:00

 

Tea (16.00 – 16.30)

Session – III (16.30 – 17:30)

Discussion

 

 

 

 

Day 2 : 21-7-2011

Session – 1 (9:10 – 10:30)

ADSS program and spallation neutron sources in India 09:10-09:50

S. Kailas, BARC, Mumbai

Improvements of slow neutron-based neutron-antineutron experiment 09:50 – 10:30

William Michael Snow, Indiana University

Tea (10:30 – 11:00)

Session – II (11:00 – 13.00)

Neutron-antineutron oscillation experiment with a focusing optics 11:00 – 11:40

for vertical free-fall flight path

Hirohiko Shimizu, KEK, Japan

Application of Neutron Source in Condensed Matter Physics 11:40 – 12:20

Saibal Basu, BARC

A National Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at VECC 12:20 – 13:00

Alok Chakroborti

 

Lunch (13.00 - 14.15)

Session – III (14.30 – 16.00)

Innovative concepts in cold neutron moderator and science 14:30-15:10

at small neutron source

David Baxter, Indiana University

Discussion

 

Tea (16.00 – 16.30)

Session – IV (16.30 – 17:30)

Neutron source using electron beam 16:30 – 17:10

Lina Quintieri, INFN, Italy (Video)

 

Day 3 : 22-7-2011

Session – 1 (10:00 – 10:40)

Neutron Physics Program at VECC 10:00 – 10:40

C. Bhattacharya, VECC, Kolkata

Tea (10:40 – 11:10)

Session – II (11:10 – 13.00)

India-based Neutrino Observatory 11:10 – 11:50

Subhasis Chatterjee, VECC, Kolkata

VECC NANO Proposal 11:50-12:20

Amlan Ray, VECC, Kolkata

Summary and Vote of Thanks 12:20 – 13:00

Y. Kamyshkov / A. Ray

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