Seweryn Kowalski
(University of Silesia (PL))
05/03/2013, 11:20
Invited
The aim of this project is to explore the QCD phase diagram within the range of thermodynamical variables (like e.g. temperature and baryon chemical potential) accessible at the SPS. In addition it provides precise hadro-production measurements to characterize the neutrino beam of the T2K
experiment at J-PARC and to simulate cosmic-ray showers for the Pierre Auger Observatory,...
Prof.
Gerard 't Hooft
(Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Utrecht)
08/03/2013, 09:00
Plenary
Although the suspicion that quantum mechanics is emergent has been lingering for a long time, only now we begin to understand how a bridge between classical and quantum mechanics can be squared with Bell's inequalities and other conceptual obstacles. It is helpful to have some good model examples such as string theory.
Prof.
Elizabeth Winstanley
(University of Sheffield)
08/03/2013, 10:20
Invited
Over the past 15 years models with large extra space-time dimensions have been extensively studied. We have learned from these models that the energy scale of quantum gravity may be many orders of magnitude smaller than the conventional value of 10^19 GeV. This raises the tantalizing prospect of probing quantum gravity effects at the LHC. Of the possible quantum gravity processes at the LHC,...
Dr
Chris Stoughton
(Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics)
08/03/2013, 11:20
Matter and Gravity
Regular
Fermilab is conducting an experiment sensitive to effects of quantum gravity at the Planck scale. Inspired by the Holographic Principle, we calculate the "holographic noise" when measuring location, defined by position in two non-degenerate directions.
We use power recycled Michelson interferometers to measure the location of the beam splitter. I will discuss the experimental strategy and...
