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Professor of Physics, Applied Physics and Biomedical Engineering
University
of Michigan
Randall
Laboratory 450 Church Street
Ann
Arbor, Michigan USA 48109
Tel:
(1)-734-647-2514 Fax: (1)-734-764-5153
E-Mail: chupp@umich.edu
Pear-shaped nuclei and the origin of matter
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Paper
on Beyond-Standard-Model Physics experiments at low energy Teaching Go to Physics 441/442
Advanced Labs Pages Go to Physics 457 Web Pages (Winter 2005) Go to Physics 126 Web Pages
(Fall 2004) Go to Physics 290 Web Pages (Winter 2004)
Outreach Elementary School Science
Activities Saturday Morning Physics Lectures on
Nuclear Magnets DMAPT Presentation: The Physics of Vision Research Professor
Chupp and his group pursue a program that uses
precision measurement techniques and symmetry
principles in particle physics investigations and applies the technology
developed for those investigations to a variety of endeavors. The primary
current efforts include fundamental neutron physics and atomic and neutron
electric-dipole-moment measurements. Neutron beta-decay provides a unique
window into new physics, and we are contributing to a new generation of high
precision experiments including the rare radiative
decay mode of the neutron, the possibility of an improved cold-beam neutron
lifetime measurement and Nab, measurement of the beta-neutrino asymmetry
using a magnetic proton-time-of-flight spectrometer. Time reversal invariance
violation is also manifest in the permanent
electric dipole moments (EDMs) induced in the
neutron and atoms by elementary particle interactions beyond the Standard
Model that may hold the key to the origin of matter. Rare isotopes, e.g.
223-Rn, are used because large enhancements of time-reversal violating
effects are expected due to octupole deformation of
the nucleus. Experiment S-929 at TRIUMF will measure the EDM of 223-Rn. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beam, FRIB, at
Michigan State University can produce much greater quantities of 223-Rn and
provide for more precise measurements. Recent results on direct measurement
of nuclear shapes at CERN-ISOLDE help guide this effort. We also work with
Peter Fierlinger’s group at Technical University of
Munich on a new
neutron EDM measurement. Our group continues to work on applications of
laser polarized 129-Xe to medical
imaging. Click here to learn more
about out group's research Review Paper "Medical Imaging with
Laser Polarized Noble Gases" PANDA (polarized neutron
decay) The Group Faculty: Tim Chupp, Wolfgang Lorenzon, Richard Raymond Post doc: Fei Gong Graduate Students: Matt Bales, Skyler Degenkolb Undergrads and others: Alan Coleman, Karl Winsor Recent PhDs Rob Cooper: The Radiative
Decay Mode of the Free Neutron Monisha Sharma: Precision Neutron Polarimetry
and npdamma Eric Tardiff:
Towards a Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of 223Rn
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