Wednesday 12 November 2008

Speaker: Professor Daniel Kaplan   (IIT)

Title: New Experiments with Antiprotons

Abstract: Fermilab operates the world's most intense antiproton source. Newly proposed experiments can use those
antiprotons either parasitically during Tevatron Collider running or after the Tevatron Collider finishes in about
2010. For example, the annihilation of 8 GeV antiprotons might make the world's most intense source of tagged D0
mesons, and thus the best near-term opportunity to study charm mixing and, via CP violation, to search for new
physics. An experiment using a Penning trap and an atom interferometer could make the world's first measurement
of the gravitational force on antimatter. Other potential measurements will also be discussed, to give a flavor
of the veritable "physics cornucopia" that could be manifest.