The IonPNC Project

Documents

• "Measuring Parity Nonconservation with a Single Trapped Barium Ion" 1995 Funding Proposal to NSF proposal text
  Initial proposal for NSF funding. Provides a general but terse overview of concepts and challenges.

• "Barium PNC apparatus" APS/DAMOP April 1997, Washington D.C. abstract(tex), talk transparencies(ps)
  Covers motivation for studying parity violation, advantages of ion technique and overview of experimental apparatus.

• "First observations with Ba+ PNC Apparatus" APS/DAMOP April 1997, Washington D.C. abstract(tex), main talk transparencies (ps), supplementary talk transparencies (ps)
  This presents a more detailed description of the parity violating observable to be measured and the techniques required to measure it. It includes results from measurements made to assess feasability of PNC measurement and determine measurement procedure.

• Something about IonPNC DAMOP May 1998, Sante Fe NM. abstract(tex), poster (ps, pdf)
  General overview of motivation, apparatus and method with more details of parity violating Standard Model physics and possible extentions, the origin of the parity violating light shift to be measured and summary of different classes of systematic errors. Includes detailed descriptions of techniques for spin manipulation and detection and results of spin lifetime measurements.

• "A Parity Violation Experiment using a Single Trapped Ion" International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics September 1998, Monterey CA. abstract(tex), talk transparencies (ps), proceedings (tex)
  General overview with more emphasis on structure and observability Parity Violating Weak processes and Standard Model extentions. Includes results of RF spin resonance experiments.

• "Progress towards an Atomic PNC measurement in singly trapped Ba+" APS Centenial Meeting 1999, Atlanta GA abstract(tex)

• K.R.G.Hendrickson Thesis:"Measuring Parity Nonconservation Using a Single, Trapped Barium Ion"(tex)
• M.Schacht Thesis:"A Conneticut Yankee in the Photon Cowboy's Court"(tex)

Other Resources

• IonSPY
  A real time monitor of the IonPNC experiment in progress. Eventually with descriptions of current, past and future measurements. Current status:NOT accesible