Speaker
Albert Young
(North Carolina State University and the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)
Description
The current status of ongoing and planned experiments using low energy (roughly eV and below) neutrons to search for beyond standard model (BSM) physics will be presented. These experiments take place at many different facilities and cover a wide range of physics, including measurements of the static electric dipole moment of the neutron, sensitive searches for time-reversal violation in neutron-nuclear interactions, probes for short-ranged interactions including axions and gravity-like forces, high precision beta decay and more. In this presentation, the motivation and recent progress will be presented for several of these projects and placed in context with other activity in the field of high precision tests of the standard model.
