Experimental techniques in table-top fundamental physics

Conference Date:

Lundi, Août 21, 2017 (All day) to Vendredi, Août 25, 2017 (All day)

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Experimental techniques in table-top fundamental physics

Scientific Areas:

Particle Physics

In the last few years there has been a resurgence of interest in small scale high sensitivity experiments that look for new forces and new particles beyond the Standard Model. They promise to expand our understanding of the Cosmos and possibly explain mysteries such as Dark matter in a way that is complementary to colliders and other large scale experiments. There is a number of different physics motivations and approaches currently being explored in many on-going and newly proposed experiments and they often share common experimental techniques.Many workshops in this field focus on the theory motivations behind these experiments without emphasis on the details of the experimental techniques that enable precision measurements. There is also substantial experimental expertise across many fields, often outside of fundamental physics community, that can be relevant to ongoing and proposed experiments.Thus, we decided to organize the workshop around some of the common experimental techniques. We hope it will be educational for both experimentalists and theorists and lead to discussions on the best way forward. We would like to bring together experimentalists with different expertise in the hope that it will lead to new ideas through interdisciplinary interactions. For theorists, we expect it to provide better appreciation of the challenges and opportunities in improving the sensitivity of precision measurement experiments.

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Eric Adelberger, University of Washington
Joern Beyer, Physical Technical Federal Institute
Dimitry Budker, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Fierlinger, Technical University Munich
Andrew Geraci, University of Nevada
Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University
William Hersman, University of New Hampshire
Jason Hogan, Stanford University
Mark Kasevich, Stanford University
Yong-Ho Lee, KRISS
Konrad Lehnert, JILA
Edward Marti, University of Colorado
Holger Mueller, Berkeley University
Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland
Michael Romalis, Princeton University
Brian Saam, University of Utah
Yannis Semertzidis, Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research
Luca Taffarello, INFN Padova Section Italy
Michael Tobar, University of Western Australia

More speakers to be announced

Eric Adelberger, University of Washington
Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute
Itzhak Bars, University of Southern California
Masha Baryakhtar, Perimeter Institute
Joern Beyer, Physical Technical Federal Institute
Themistocles Bowcock, University of Liverpool
Joseph Bramante, Perimeter Institute
Dimitry Budker, University of California, Berkeley
Seung Pyo Chang, KAIST
Swapan Chattopadhyay, Fermilab
Jon Coleman, University of Liverpool
Animesh Datta, University of Warwick
William DeRocco, Stanford University
Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University
Anne Fabricant, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Peter Fierlinger, Technical University Munich
Isabel Garcia Garcia, University of Oxford
Antoine Garcon, Helmholtz Institute
Andrew Geraci, University of Nevada
Victor Gorbenko, New York University
Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University
William Hersman, University of New Hampshire
Jason Hogan, Stanford University
Anson Hook, Stanford University
Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute
Yonatan Kahn, Princeton University
Mark Kasevich, Stanford University
On Kim, KAIST
Robert Lasenby, Perimeter Institute
Inbum Lee, Indiana University
Joshua Long, Indiana University
Yong-Ho Lee, KRISS
Konrad Lehnert, JILA
John March-Russell, University of Oxford
Edward Marti, University of Colorado
David Moore, Yale University
Holger Mueller, Berkeley University
Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland
Manu Paranjape, Universite de Montreal
Gil Porat, JILA
Anirudh Prabhu, Stanford University
Michael Romalis, Princeton University
Jan Rudolph, Stanford University
Brian Saam, University of Utah
Yannis Semertzidis, Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research
Ian Shipsey, University of Oxford
Justin Shortino, Indiana University
William Snow, Indiana University
Luca Taffarrello, INFN Padova Section Italy
Volodymyr Takhistov, University of California, Los Angeles
Gustavo Marques-Tavares, Stanford University
Mae Hwee Teo, Stanford University
Michael Tobar, University of Western Australia
Yu-Dai Tsai, Cornell University
KenVan Tilburg, New York University & Institute for Advanced Study
Amar Vutha, University of Toronto
Tao Wang, University of California, Berkeley
TJ Wilkason, Stanford University
Yiming Zhong, Boston University

Monday, August 21, 2017

Time	Event	Location
9:00 – 9:30am	Registration	Reception
9:30 – 9:35am	Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute Welcome and Opening Remarks	Bob Room
9:35 – 10:30am	Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute Theory Talk	Bob Room
10:30 – 11:00am	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st Floor
11:00 – 12:00pm	Edward Marti, University of Colorado A three-dimensional optical lattice clock: precision at the 19th digit	Bob Room
12:00 – 2:00pm	Lunch	Bistro – 2^nd floor
2:00 - 3:00pm	Solar Eclipse Viewing	Outside
3:00 – 4:00pm	Holger Mueller, Berkeley University Measurement of the fine structure constant as a test of the standard model	Bob Room
4:00 – 5:00pm	Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland Superconducting accelerometer technology for precision tests of gravitation and search for new interactions	Bob Room
5:00 – 5:30pm	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st floor
5:30 – 6:30pm	Andrew Geraci, University of Nevada Searching for axions and new short-range forces with resonant sensors	Bob Room

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Time	Event	Location
9:30 – 10:30am	Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University Testing Gravity at Extreme Scales	Bob Room
10:30 – 11:00am	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st Floor
11:00 – 12:00pm	Yannis Semertzidis, Centre for Axion and Precision Physics Research Precision Physics in Storage Rings	Bob Room
12:00 – 2:00pm	Lunch	Bistro – 2^nd floor
2:00 – 3:00pm	Jason Hogan, Stanford University TBA	Bob Room
3:00 – 4:00pm	Andrew Geraci, University of Nevada Signal processing in precision measurements: a primer for theorists	Bob Room
4:00 – 4:30pm	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st floor
4:30 – 5:30pm	Mark Kasevich, Stanford University Testing gravity and quantum mechanics using atom interferometry	Bob Room

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Time	Event	Location
9:30 – 10:30am	Konrad Lehnert, JILA Accelerating an axionic dark matter search with quantum technology	Bob Room
10:30 – 11:00am	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st Floor
11:00 – 12:00pm	Dmitry Budker, University of California, Berkeley Fundamental Physics with (Weird) Magnetic Resonance	Bob Room
12:00 – 2:00pm	Lunch	Bistro – 2^nd floor
2:00 – 3:00pm	Michael Tobar, University of Western Australia Precision experiments with phonons, photons and spins to test Lorentz Invariance and to Detect Dark Matter and High Frequency Gravitational Waves	Bob Room
3:00 – 4:00pm	Ken Van Tilburg, New York University & Institute for Advanced Study Searches for light scalar dark matter	Bob Room
4:00 – 4:30pm	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st floor
4:30 – 5:30pm	Peter Fierlinger, Technical University Munich Pecision measurements in small magnetic fields	Bob Room
6:00pm onwards	Banquet	Bistro – 2^nd Floor

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Time	Event	Location
9:30 – 10:30am	William Hersman, University of New Hampshire Innovations and applications of high-power optical pumping	Bob Room
10:30 – 11:00am	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st Floor
11:00 – 12:00pm	Michael Romalis, Princeton University Precision measurements with nuclear spin co-magnetometers	Bob Room
12:00 – 2:00pm	Lunch	Bistro – 2^nd floor
2:00 – 3:00pm	Yong-Ho Lee, KRISS SQUIDs for ARIADNE, pEDM and Axion	Bob Room
3:00 – 3:30pm	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st floor

Friday, August 25, 2017

Time	Event	Location
9:30 – 10:30am	Brian Saam, University of Utah Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Noble Gases	Bob Room
10:30 – 11:00am	Coffee Break	Bistro – 1^st Floor
11:00 – 12:00pm	Luca Taffarello, INFN Padova Section Italy When the table-top experiments need the ultracryogenic tons dimension: a personal/experimental remarks	Bob Room
12:00 – 2:00pm	Lunch	Bistro – 2^nd floor
2:00 – 3:00pm	Eric Adelberger, University of Washington Fundamental physics with low-frequency mechanical oscillators	Bob Room
3:00 – 4:00pm	Joern Beyer, Physical Technical Federal Institute LTS dc-SQUID sensors for precision measurements in metrology and fundamental physics	Bob Room
4:00 - 4:05pm	Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University Thank you and Good-Bye	Bob Room