Pick up at Graduate Knoxville Make sure to be in the hotel lobby at 5pm and leave with the group in order to gain access to the Nielsen Physics Building.

Planetarium Show Room: First Floor Experience UTK's in-house planetarium: Learn what is visible in the sky right now, and take a journey through the solar system as we explore some of the potentially-habitable worlds near us!

Walk to Tomato Head from Nielsen Physics Room: Lobby Profs will meet the students in the hotel lobby for 6:30 PM and walk over to the restaurant downtown. Any students joining later can walk over to the restaurant on Market Square on their own.

Welcome Dinner w/ Faculty Pizza dinner at a Knoxville institution

Transport to IAMM from Graduate Knoxville Please meet in the lobby at 8:30am. If you miss the ground transportation for some reason, contact the front office at (865) 974-3342 to arrange a pickup

Breakfast in IAMM 310 Room: 310 IAMM: 2641 Osprey Vista Way

Lab tours Visiting Experimental Labs at the Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing (IAMM)

Transport to Nielsen

Meeting with Dept Head, Grad Program Director, Director of Labs

• Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Steve Johnston (University of Tennessee)
• Christine Cheney (University of Tennessee Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Room: 307 Learn about our department and graduate program

Pizza Lunch with Faculty and Current Grad Students Room: 201 (Space Bar)

Pre-scheduled One-on-One Meetings with Faculty Based on your responses on the survey, we've arranged faculty meetings when possible. Please find your personalized meeting schedule at the link below. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wiGjxeyCzE_JAsymYtNF6l_GHTkiyyVr?usp=sharing If you would like to add to this schedule, please get in touch with Prof Richers: richers@utk.edu

Grad Student Poster Session Learn about some of the great research going on in the department from our current grad students

Pre-Colloquium Tea and Refreshments

Colloquium - Leah Broussard, ORNL Room: 307 A Broader View of Neutron Beta Decay from the Nab Experiment at ORNL The weak force of nature uniquely allows quarks to change flavor, resulting in the transformation of nuclei known as nuclear beta decay. Currently, measurements of the weak mixing of quarks are in tension with the Standard Model’s description, a discrepancy referred to as the “Cabibbo Angle Anomaly.” As the simplest nucleus to undergo beta decay, the neutron has emerged as a system which can provide a competitive measurement and shine light on this anomaly if experimental uncertainties in the neutron dataset can be improved. The Nab experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source employs a novel and robust approach to improve decay correlation measurements by observing the full momentum phase space in neutron beta decay accessible above detection thresholds. The tight kinematic constraints from the experiment have recently been used to place first limits on a new hypothesized excited state of the neutron, suggested to address experimental disagreements in neutron lifetime measurements. In this presentation, I will describe the working principles of the experiment, present early results from first physics data-taking, and discuss the outlook for Nab and its upgrade pNAB (polarized Nab) to perform world-leading measurements of neutron decay correlations and improve our understanding of quark mixing in the weak interaction.

Campus Tours w/ Grad Students or Downtime For campus tours, gather outside of colloquium after it ends to meet your grad student guides.

Dinner with Current Grad Students

Check out of Hotel on Time Checkout time is 11am. If going to ORNL, please make sure to checkout before coming to campus for the shuttle. The hotel can store your bags at the counter.

Pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with faculty Based on your responses on the survey, we've arranged faculty meetings when possible. Please find your personalized meeting schedule at the link from Monday afternoon. Your PDF schedule contains the schedule for both days.