CDSAGENDA V.5 QED 2000 - 2nd WORKSHOP ON FRONTIER TESTS OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS AND PHYSICS OF THE VACUUM

QED 2000 - 2nd WORKSHOP ON FRONTIER TESTS OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS AND PHYSICS OF THE VACUUM

Start Time:

5 October 2000 at 09:00

Ends On:

10 October 2000

Location:

ICTP

Venue:

M (LH)

Organizer(s):

E. Zavattini, D. Amati G. Cantatore (Coordinator & Scientific Secretary), D. Bakalov, F. Della Valle and C. Rizzo See Workshop announcement for Int'l Advisory Board and Co-sponsors

Description:

The Trieste QED 2000 workshop, second in a series, will be mainly devoted to recent results in the field of QED, the
experimental and theoretical aspects of the structure of the vacuum, the standard model and the fundamental
constants. More specifically, it will concentrate on the discussion, based on current theoretical ideas, of experimental
tests of QED seeking to extract information on the structure of the vacuum through precision measurements.
Space will be given to the discussion of precision measurements having results from QED as their foundation, such
as the study of specific bound systems and the g-2 of leptons. Finally, technical topics, originating from the presented
experimental investigations, will be welcome.
The purpose of the meeting, following the experience of the first workshop in the series, held in Sandanski, Bulgaria,
in 1998, is to gather experimental and theoretical physicists, all active in related fields, to search for innovative ideas,
open new theoretical challenges conducting to improved experimental tests of QED and physics of the vacuum.
"QED2000: 2nd Workshop on Frontier Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics and Physics of the Vacuum" has been
inserted in the official program of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (I.C.T.P.) in Trieste
and will be held in the Centre facilities from October 5th through October 11th, 2000.

Main topics

photon-photon interactions
bound systems
heavy ions interactions
structure of vacuum
particle physics aspects of QED
dark matter
fundamental constants

Material:

no notes available

Morning session

Chairperson: I. Lindgren, W. Dittrich

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

5 October 2000

09:00
09:15

Opening ceremony

15'

09:15
10:00

Long living nuclear molecules and the possibility to test the change of the e+e- -vacuum in supercritical

45'

W. Greiner

10:00
10:45

Towards a Lamb Shift Measurement in Muonic Hydrogen

45'

F. Kottmann

10:45
11:15

Coffee Break

30'

11:15
12:00

Precision Measurements of the Casimir Force using an Atomic Force Microscope

45'

U. Mohideen

12:00
12:45

QED in the worldline formalism

45'

C. Schubert

12:45
14:30

Lunch

01h45'

Afternoon Session

Chairperson: J. Ulbricht, W. Greiner

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

5 October 2000

14:30
15:00

Dissipative effects in the propagation of polarized photons

30'

R. Floreanini

15:00
15:45

Self-Energy Screening in Two-Electron Ions

45'

P. Indelicato

15:45
16:30

Density effects in the precision spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium

45'

D. Bakalov

16:30
17:00

Coffee Break

30'

17:00
17:45

Quantum algebraic representation of localization and motion of a Dirac electron

45'

S. Reynaud

17:45
18:30

From effective actions to actual effects

45'

H. Gies

Morning Session

Chairperson: I. Lindgren, W. Dittrich

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

6 October 2000

09:15
10:00

Long living nuclear molecules and the possibility to test the change of the e+e- -vacuum in supercritical systems

45'

W. Greiner

10:00
10:45

Towards a Lamb Shift Measurement in Muonic Hydrogen

45'

F. Kottmann

10:45
11:15

Coffee Break

30'

11:15
12:00

Precision Measurements of the Casimir Force using an Atomic Force Microscope

45'

U. Mohideen

12:00
12:45

QED in the worldline formalism

45'

C. Schubert

12:45
14:30

Lunch

01h45'

Afternoon session

Chairperson: J. Ulbricht, W. Greiner

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

6 October 2000

14:30
15:00

Dissipative effects in the propagation of polarized photons

30'

R. Floreanini

15:00
15:45

Self-Energy Screening in Two-Electron Ions

45'

P. Indelicato

15:45
16:30

Density effects in the precision spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium

45'

D. Bakalov

16:30
17:00

Coffee Break

30'

17:00
17:45

Quantum algebraic representation of localization and motion of a Dirac electron

45'

S. Reynaud

17:45
18:30

From effective actions to actual effects

45'

H. Gies

Morning session (Saturday)

Chairperson: A.C. Melissinos, S. Reynaud

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

7 October 2000

09:00
09:45

PVLAS: an experiment to search for small anisotropies induced in vacuum by a magnetic field

45'

E. Zavattini

09:45
10:30

Pseudoscalar production in electromagnetic fields by a Schwinger-like mechanism

45'

E. Massó

10:30
11:00

Coffee Break

30'

11:00
11:45

Decay of the vacuum with production of e(+)-e(-) pairs in very strong magnetic fields

45'

G. Calucci

11:45
12:30

QED Tests of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry

45'

R. Bluhm

12:30
12:50

The Heat-kernel coefficients and the Casimir energy of the dielectric cylinder

20'

I. Pirozhenko

12:50
14:30

Lunch

01h40'

Afternoon Session (Saturday)

Chairperson: D. Bakalov, R. Faustov

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

7 October 2000

14:30
15:15

A 25 T dipole pulsed magnet to study the magnetic birefringence of vacuum: the BMV project

45'

C. Rizzo

15:15
16:00

An optical transduction chain for gravitational waves bar detectors

45'

F. Marin

16:00
16:30

Coffee Break

30'

16:30
17:15

Treatment of atomic quasi-degeneracy in bound-state QED

45'

I. Lindgren

17:15
18:00

The g-Factor of the Bound Electron in Hydrogen-like Ions: a High-Accuracy Test of Bound-State QED

45'

W. Quint

18:00
18:20

Screened self-energy of almost-degenerate two-electron atomic states

20'

E.O. Le Bigot

8:45 - 16:30 Boat trip for the "Barcolana" 2000 bo (Sunday)

Description: Boat sails from Grignano bay, in front of theAdriatico Hotel (ICTP Guest House)

9:00 - 11:30 - Cruise in the Gulf of Trieste to watch the Barcolana 2000

12:00 - Arrival in Muggia

12: 30 - Lunch in Trattoria "La Risorta", Muggia

15:30 - Boat sails from Muggia to Grignano bay

16:30 - Arrival in Grignano

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

Morning session

Chairperson: F. Biraben, F. Kottmann

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

9 October 2000

09:00
09:45

Neutrino scattering in a magnetic field - Nonlinear effects in Fabry-Perot resonators

45'

A.C. Melissinos

09:45
10:30

Second-Order Radiative Corrections to the Axial Vector Anomaly

45'

W. Dittrich

10:30
11:00

Coffee break

30'

11:00
11:45

Complete result of the a(Z\a)3 Muonium Hyperfine Structure

45'

M. Nio

11:45
12:30

Making Fock states in cavity QED

45'

B.G. Englert

12:30
13:30

Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field and propagation of light: a heuristic approach

01h00'

E. Milotti

13:30
15:00

Lunch

01h30'

Afternoon Session

Chairperson: E. Polacco, L. Simons

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

9 October 2000

14:30
15:15

Atomic interferometry: principles and applications to fundamental physics.

45'

J. Vigué

15:15
16:00

Muon g-2: A Probe for Physics Beyond The Standard Model

45'

Y. Semertzidis

16:00
16:30

Coffee Break

30'

16:30
17:15

Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Contribution to the Spectra of Hydrogenic Atoms

45'

R. Faustov

17:15
18:00

First results from the DEAR experiment on DAFNE

45'

C.O. Petrascu

18:00
18:20

Axial Anomaly and Mass singularity Cancellation in QED

20'

M. Verbeni

20:30
20:30

Social Dinner at "Le Terrazze" restaurant, Grignano

Guest Speaker: A.C. Melissinos - "An outsider's look at precision Physics"

Morning Session

Chairperson: E. Zavattini, U. Mohideen

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

10 October 2000

09:00
09:45

Metrology of hydrogen atom: determination of the Rydberg constant and Lamb shifts

45'

F. Biraben

09:45
10:30

Limits on sizes of fundamental particles and on gravitational mass of a scalar

45'

J. Ulbricht

10:30
11:00

Coffee break

30'

11:00
11:45

QED Effective Actions in Inhomogeneous Backgrounds: Summing the Derivative Expansion

45'

G. Dunne

11:45
12:30

QED Test at LEP200 Energies in the Reaction e+e- -> gg(g)

45'

J. Zhao

12:30
13:00

Sensitive Search for a Muon Electric Dipole Moment

30'

Y. Semertzidis

13:00
14:30

Lunch

01h30'

Afternoon Session

Chairperson: E. Remiddi, J. Vigué

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

10 October 2000

14:30
15:15

Crystal Spectroscopy and Exotic Atoms

45'

L. Simons

15:15
16:00

Proton polarizability contribution to the hydrogen Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting

45'

A. Martynenko

16:00
16:30

Coffee Break

30'

16:30
17:15

High-precision spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium

45'

E. Widmann

17:15
17:35

Three-Photon Interaction In Dense Fermionic Medium

20'

A. Tishchenko

17:35
17:35

Closing remarks and arrivederci

E. Zavattini