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SUMMARY:R&amp\;D at Fermilab: Accelerators Towards Precision Neutrino Expe
 riments and Quantum Sensors of the “Dark” Sector - Swapan Chattopadhya
 y (NIU / Fermilab/ CERN)
DTSTART:20160524T140000Z
DTEND:20160524T150000Z
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CONTACT:Rolf Oldeman
DESCRIPTION:I will present the current plans for high intensity proton acc
 elerator development at Fermilab – both PIP-II accelerator\ncomplex as a
  driver in the near term towards the long-baseline neutrino experiment DUN
 E ( Deep Underground\nNeutrino Experiment ) as well as research and develo
 pment on IOTA ( Integrable Optics Test Accelerator) as a test\nstorage rin
 g to enable future “smart booster” developments to go beyond PIP-II fo
 r multi-Megawatt proton beams for\neven higher intensity long baseline neu
 trinos. We will also touch upon two major precision experiments on the\nho
 rizon in near future using muons: the “g-2” experiment to explore the 
 anomalous magnetic moment of muons and\nthe “Mu-2-e” experiment for ex
 otic decays of muons\, towards exploring physics beyond the Standard Model
 . Finally\,\ntremendous advances have been made in the last two decades in
  precision ‘Quantum’ technologies and techniques in\nmultiple discipli
 nes e.g. SQUIDS\, Qubit-based Cavity Electrodynamics\, Atomic Beams\, etc.
  . These advances promise\nto enable transformational research using ultra
 -sensitive probes to explore very “weak effects” on a laboratory scale
 .\nThese weak effects are manifest everywhere in nature in material and li
 ving systems from the laboratory to outer\nspace. Potential “mezzo-scale
 ” experiments and facilities can be envisaged using “quantum sensors
 ” to search for\nultra-weak physical signals of fundamental significance
  to the “inner” and “outer” dimension of “vacuum” manifest in\
 nthe “dark” universe and inflationary cosmology. We will illustrate vi
 a a few exciting examples discussed at the recent\nUS DOE Round Table on Q
 uantum Sensors in February 2016.
LOCATION:Rutherford Seminar Room B
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