Category: Ra EDM
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Colloquium @ Central Michigan University
Met with Matthew Redshaw’s group. Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry Using Lasers, a Magic Room, and Pear-Shaped Nuclei Experimental tests of fundamental symmetries using nuclei and other particles subject to the strong nuclear force have led to the discovery of parity (P) violation and the discovery of charge-parity (CP) violation. It is…
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E-Field of 110 kV/cm
This weekly win post is for the win awarded on 10/10/16. The win that week was awarded to Roy Ready’s team, working on the Ra EDM project. The RaEDM team successfully tested the high voltage system, and reached a stable operating voltage of 22 kV. One of the goals of the…
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Residual Magnetization Gradiometer
As of this week, there will be a weekly blog post titled “Weekly Win”. Each post will include information and a short blurb about something significantly exciting or remarkable which occurred in the lab that week, and each week the members of this group will vote for one of various…
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Colloquium @ University of Nevada-Reno
Met with Jonathan Weinstein’s group, Andrei Derevianko’s group, Andrew Geraci’s group, and Timur Tscherbul’s group. Samuel Goudsmit, one of the discoverer’s of spin and the first & longtime editor of PRL, retired to UNR. I gave my talk in a conference named after him. Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry Using Lasers, a…
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Colloquium @ Texas Tech University
Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry Using Lasers, a Magic Room, and Pear-Shaped Nuclei Met with the world famous Tom Maccarone, Tom Gibson (my first and best teacher of quantum mechanics) and Greg Gellene (PI of the first group I did research with). Experimental tests of fundamental symmetries using nuclei and other particles subject…
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Colloquium @ University of Toronto
Visited with Amar Vutha’s group and Joeseph Thywissen’s group Walked by the Ontario College of Art & Design – very cool building Thundercloud as Generator #2 by Paterson Ewen as the Art Gallery of Ontario Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry Using Lasers, a Magic Room, and Pear-Shaped Nuclei Experimental tests of fundamental symmetries using…
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Tenzin Officially Starts His Thesis Work on Ra EDM
Today Tenzin passed his first PhD Committee meeting. His thesis project will be an improved measurement of the EDM of Ra-225. He will be moving to Argonne to work with our collaborators on improving the atom detection efficiency as well as other upgrades. Congratulations!
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Major Renovations to Spinlab Complete
Most of the major renovations to Spinlab are complete! This included adding additional clean power and standard power, cable trays, casework, and a sink & eyewash among many other things. Today we celebrated with a fancy cake with fancy cake decorations. We are now waiting for our optical tables and…
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Assembly of HV Electrode UHV Chamber
One of responsibilities for the Ra EDM experiment is to test and condition high voltage electrodes. The goal is to achieve an electric field that is at least three times higher than what we’ve achieved in the past. This should improve the statistical sensitivity of our experiment by at least…
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