Conveners
Low energy precision experiments
- Klaus Kirch (PSI / ETH Zurich)
Empirical motivations for new physics, e.g. the need to explain dark matter and neutrino mass, arguably point to a hidden/dark sector, weakly coupled to the Standard Model. I’ll discuss the impact of low energy precision and high-intensity experiments in testing this theoretical paradigm.
The existence of dark matter DM is well established from cosmological observations. While large scale structure formation, rotation curves of galaxies and gravitational lensing all clearly indicate the presence of DM in the Universe, the microscopic particles responsible for these observation still hide from laboratory discovery. A viable class of hypothetical particles which could make up DM...
Atomic physicists have spent decades developing tools to gain complete quantum control of atoms and ions. These tools have used them to make ever increasing precision measurements - the most prominent example being atomic optical clocks which can now measure frequencies to $10^{-19}$ precision. Recently there has been increasing interest in leveraging these precision tools to look for small...
