ElectroWeak Workshop
The Scientific Impact and Feasibility of an Ultra-precise 12 GeV Moeller Experiment to Test the Standard Model
December 11-13, 2006
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA USA
Program - CEBAF Center Room F113
A 12 GeV Moeller Experiment and the Standard Model
Monday, December 11, 2006 | ||
08:45-09:00 | Welcome, Opening Remarks, Objectives of the Workshop | Anthony W. Thomas (JLab) Willem T.H. van Oers (U. of Manitoba) |
Sesson I: Chair, Willem T.H. van Oers | ||
09:00-10:00 | Electroweak Radiative Corrections and Precision Low Energy Experiments: An Overview | William J. Marciano (BNL) |
10:00-11:00 | Electroweak Physics: Results from Experiments and Interpretations, Complementarity with future LHC Results, Precisions to be reached (Experiment) | Mike Roney (U. of Victoria) |
11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break | |
Session II: Interpretability Issues - Chair, Paul Souder | ||
11:15-12:15 | Precision Tests of the Standard Model and their Implications | Andrzej Czarnecki (U. of Alberta) |
12:15-12:45 | New Limits on Physics beyond the Standard Model from Parity Violating Electron Scattering | Ross Young (JLab) |
12:45-13:00 | Discussion | |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00-15:00 | Possible Extensions of the Standard Model and a 12 GeV Moeller Experiment: New Dimensions | John Ng (TRIUMF) |
15:00-16:00 | The Electroweak Model and Constraints on New Physics from a High-Energy Perspective: Electroweak Radiative Corrections | Jens Erler (UNAM) |
16:00-16:15 | Coffee Break | |
16:15-17:15 | Possible Extensions of the Standard Model and their Predictions for Experimental Observables: R-Parity Violation and SUSY Loop Effects | Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf (CalTech) |
17:15-17:45 | Discussion | |
19:00 | Workshop Dinner | |
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 | ||
Session III: About Other Experiments - Chair, Dave J. Mack | ||
09:00-10:00 | Prospects for Atomic Parity Violation Experiments | Konstantin Tsigutkin (LBNL) |
10:00-11:00 | Charge Symmetry Breaking Quark Distributions and the NUTeV Experiment | J. Timothy Londergan (Indiana U.) |
11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break | |
11:15-12:15 | The SLAC 158 Moeller Experiment: a Critical Review and Experimental Limitations | |
Beam, Instrumentation, and Systematics | Michael B. Woods (SLAC) | |
End Station Configuration, Systematics, Analysis of Results | Paul Souder (Syracuse U.) | |
12:15-12:45 | Discussion | |
12:45-14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00-14:30 | The JLab Qweak Experiment | Roger D. Carlini (JLab) |
Session IV: Concepts for a 12 GeV Moeller Experiment - Chair, Greg Smith | ||
14:30-15:15 | Toroidal Magnet Based Concept for a 12 GeV Moeller Experiment | David J. Mack (JLab) |
15:15-16:00 | Quadrupole Magnet Based Concept for a 12 GeV Moeller Experiment | Krishna S. Kumar (U. of Massachusetts) |
16:00-16:15 | Coffee Break | |
16:15-17:00 | Discussion | |
19:00 | Working Dinner | |
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 | ||
Session V: Chair, Roger D. Carlini | ||
09:00-09:30 | Systematic Error Considerations for a 12 GeV Moeller Experiment | Jeffery W. Martin (U. of Winnipeg) |
09:30-10:00 | Polarized Electron Source and Polarized Electron Beam Requirements; Helicity Correlated Effects | Gordon D. Cates, Jr. (U. of Virginia) |
10:00-10:30 | Tasks towards a Reference Design | |
10:30 | Conclusions | |
11:00 | Colloquium: The Weak Mixing Angle and New Physics | William J. Marciano (BNL) |
End of the Workshop | ||
16:00 | Colloquium: Physics with a Large Hadron Electron Collider | Barry Dainton, U. of Liverpool |