3–10 Aug 2016
Chicago IL USA
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Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer (15' + 5')

4 Aug 2016, 09:45
20m
Chicago 10

Chicago 10

Sheraton Grand Chicago 301 East Water Street Chicago IL 60611 USA
Oral Presentation Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology

Speaker

Dr Chris Stoughton (Fermilab)

Description

Measurements are reported of high frequency cross-spectra of signals from the Fermilab Holometer, a pair of co-located 39 m, high power Michelson interferometers. The instrument obtains differential position sensitivity to cross-correlated signals far exceeding any previous measurement in a broad frequency band extending to the 3.8 MHz inverse light crossing time of the apparatus. General experimental constraints are placed on parameters of a set of models of universal exotic spatial shear correlations, with a sensitivity that exceeds the Planck scale holographic information bound of space-time position states by a significant factor. Current status and future plans are discussed.

Authors

Dr Aaron Chou (Fermilab) Ms Brittany Kamai (Vanderbilt University) Dr Chris Stoughton (Fermilab) Dr Craig Hogan (U. Chicago and Fermilab) Mr Jonathan Richardson (U. Chicago) Dr Lee McCuller (U. Chicago, MIT) Dr Ohkyung Kwon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Dr Rainer Weiss (MIT) Mr Ray Tomlin (Fermilab) Dr Richard Gustafson (University of Michigan) Dr Robert Lanza (U. Chicago, MIT) Dr Samuel Waldman (SpaceX) Dr Stephan Meyer (U. Chicago)

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