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Description
Despite intense efforts to understand its nature, the dark sector proves elusive. Rising tensions in observational data with Λ-CDM add to long-standing problems that clearly indicate that the present standard model/GR picture of our universe is incomplete.
As the landscape of candidate theories is vast, one possible approach is to search for easily classifyable effective low-energy manifestations of higher energy theories. Kostelecky's standard model extension and the 16 potentials of Moody and Wilczek provide a suitable framework for that.
At ATI, we use two entirely different experiments - Cannex and qBounce - to search for various terms in this framework that each correspond to a different type of `fifth' force. This talk gives an overview of the status and prospects of both experiments, and their possible contributions in the search for the nature of the dark sector.
