Probes of fundamental microphysics using intense photon beams

9 Jun 2011, 17:00
30m
Chicago Ballroom 9 (Sheraton Hotel)

Chicago Ballroom 9

Sheraton Hotel

Oral Presentation Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation Astrophysics and Space Instr.

Speaker

Aaron Chou (Fermilab)

Description

Laser cavities and interferometers are approaching MW beam power, enabling probes of new microphysics and of space-time itself at mass scales well beyond the TeV scale. I will discuss several applications currently being developed, including 1) a next-generation photon-axion oscillation experiment; 2) the Holometer--an experiment to detect Planck-suppressed space-time uncertainty; and 3) possible probes of zero-point contributions to the vacuum energy.

Author

Aaron Chou (Fermilab)

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