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The 229mTh Nuclear Isomer Clock

Europe/Berlin
Lecture Hall (KBW) (GSI, Darmstadt)

Lecture Hall (KBW)

GSI, Darmstadt

Planckstraße 1 64291 Darmstadt
Carsten Brandau (EMMI, GSI), Iain Moore (Jyväskylä University)
    • 1
      Coffee & Registration
    • 2
      Opening/Welcome
      Sprecher: C. Brandau (EMMI, GSI), I. Moore (University of Jyväskylä)
    • 3
      The ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI
      Sprecher: C. Ewerz (EMMI, GSI), P. Braun-Munzinger (EMMI, GSI)
    • 4
      FAIR
      Sprecher: Inti Lehmann (FAIR)
      Slides
    • 5
      Concepts and Prospects for a Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock
      Sprecher: E. Peik (PTB, Braunschweig)
      Slides
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • 6
      229mTh at the Interface of Atomic and Nuclear Physics
      Sprecher: A. Palffy (MPI-K Heidelberg)
      Slides
    • 7
      A Nuclear Gamma-Ray Laser in the Optical Regime
      Sprecher: E. Tkalya (Moscow State University)
      Slides
    • 8
      A Solid-State Optical Frequency Reference Based on the 229Th Nucleus
      Sprecher: E. Hudson (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
    • 16:00
      Coffee
    • 9
      Storage Ring Experiments at the Interface of Atomic and Nuclear Physics
      Sprecher: C. Kozhuharov (GSI)
      Slides
    • 10
      Towards an Optical Access to the Lowest Excited Nuclear State in 229Th*
      Sprecher: L. von der Wense (LMU, Munich)
      Slides
    • 11
      Energy Splitting of the Ground-State Doublet in 229Th using a Micro-Calorimeter
      Sprecher: P. Chodash (University of California, Berkeley)
      Slides
    • 12
      Poster Session & Dinner
    • 13
      Atomic Clocks & Frequency Metrology
      Sprecher: S. Bize (SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris)
      Slides
    • 14
      Determination of the Ground State Hyperfine Splitting in Neutral 229Th
      Sprecher: V. Sonnenschein (Unviersity of Jyväskylä)
      Slides
    • 15
      Nuclear Spin Mixing in Hyperfine Fields
      Sprecher: S. Wycech (SINS, Warsaw)
      Slides
    • 10:45
      Coffee
    • 16
      Low-Energy Isomers
      Sprecher: D. Cullen (University of Manchester)
      Slides
    • 17
      Towards A Trapped-Thorium-Ion Nuclear Clock
      Sprecher: A. Kuzmich (Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta)
    • 18
      Co-operative Effects on the 229mTh Solid State Nuclear Clock Transition
      Sprecher: S. Das (MPI-K, Heidelberg)
      Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 19
      The STE-QUEST Mission: Testing General Relativity with a Precision Space-Stationed Clock and an Atom Interferometer
      Sprecher: S. Schiller (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf)
      Slides
    • 20
      Laser Excitation of 8-eV Electronic States in Th+: A first Pillar of the Electronic Bridge Toward Excitation of the Th-229 Nucleus
      Sprecher: O. Herrera-Sancho (PTB, Braunschweig)
    • 21
      Nuclear Structure of Lowest 229-Th States and Time-Dependent Fundamental Constants
      Sprecher: E. Litvinova (GSI/Michigan State University)
      Slides
    • 16:00
      Coffee
    • 22
      Precision Experiments with Cooled Highly Charged Ions in Penning Traps at HITRAP
      Sprecher: W. Quint (GSI, Darmstadt)
      Slides
    • 23
      Decay Studies of 229mTh and 235mU
      Sprecher: J. Burke (LLNL, Livermore)
      Slides
    • 24
      Direct Two-Photon Excitation of the Isomeric Transition in Thorium-229 Nucleus
      Sprecher: L. Yatsenko (Institute of Physics of NAS, Kiev)
      Slides
    • 25
      Towards a Solid State Thorium Clock
      Sprecher: Th. Schumm (TU Vienna)
      Slides
    • 26
      Bus to Workshop Dinner
    • 27
      Workshop Dinner
  • Donnerstag, 27 September at 09:00
    • 28
      Space-time variation of the Fundamental Constants and Th Clock
      Talk held by E. Peik
      Sprecher: V. Flambaum (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
      Slides
    • 29
      Investigation of the Optical Transition of the 229Th Nucleus in a Solid-State Environment
      Sprecher: W. Rellergert (University of California, Los Angeles)
      Slides
    • 30
      Evaluation of Systematic Effects for 229Th3+ Nuclear Clock
      Sprecher: A. Derevianko (University of Nevada)
      Slides
    • 10:45
      Coffee
    • 31
      Cosmic clocks
      Sprecher: F. Bosch (GSI, Darmstadt)
      Slides
    • 32
      Searching for New States with Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Pure Beams
      Sprecher: B. Cheal (University of Manchester)
      Slides
    • 33
      Internal Conversion and Electron Bridge Processes in 229Th
      Sprecher: F. Karpeshin (St. Petersburg State University)
      Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 34
      Open Discussions/Conclusions
      Additional suggestions or material (for example one or two slides) presented which may be used to generate topics of interest. For example, general topics may include (please suggest your topic / contribution in advance): • Production of 229Th/ 229mTh at on-line accelerator facilities (e.g. GSI, Jyväskylä,…) • Off-line production/sources of 229Th • Low-energy isomers (in addition to 229Th), quest for alternative candidates • Open questions in theory (Atomic Physics, Nuclear Physics, the interface between both) • New collaborations, student exchange • Mechanisms for funding