School on Table-Top Experiments for Fundamental Physics

Sep 19, 2022, 8:30 a.m. → Sep 23, 2022, 5:30 p.m. America/Toronto

PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute), Davide Racco (Stanford University), Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University), Junwu Huang (Perimeter Institute), Maxim Pospelov (University of Minnesota), Peter Fierlinger (Technical University Munich), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford University)

This School aims at bringing together graduate students and junior postdocs, both theorists and experimentalists, who are interested in proposing and realizing new table-top experiments to test fundamental physics. The goal is to allow them to interact and learn from each other, forming a community.

The School will consist of some theoretical lectures for experimentalists, and experimental lectures for theorists. The scope is to offer basic and relevant notions of each field to physicists with a different background, in order to fill some of the gaps of the respective academic curricula.

The theoretical lectures will cover a review of the Standard Model with emphasis on precision tests, such as the search of new long-range forces and of electrical dipole moments. Another main topic will be a focused introduction on Dark Matter, looking at its cosmological production mechanisms, its impact on astrophysics and cosmology, and its laboratory detection.

On the experimental side, the School will cover a range of techniques for probing weak electromagnetic fields, short distance forces, single photons, fundamental electric dipole moments, as well as atom interferometers and optomechanical sensors.

https://pirsa.org/C22030

Territorial Land Acknowledgement

Perimeter Institute acknowledges that it is situated on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples.

Perimeter Institute is located on the Haldimand Tract. After the American Revolution, the tract was granted by the British to the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation as compensation for their role in the war and for the loss of their traditional lands in upstate New York. Of the 950,000 acres granted to the Haudenosaunee, less than 5 percent remains Six Nations land. Only 6,100 acres remain Mississaugas of the Credit land. 

We thank the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples for hosting us on their land.

Monday, September 19

Registration

1 Welcome & Opening Remarks

Speakers: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute), Davide Racco (Stanford University), Junwu Huang (Perimeter Institute)

2 Standard Model & EDM, g-2

Speaker: Jesse Thaler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

jesse.pdf

10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

3 Probing magnetic-field like effects

Speaker: Alexander Sushkov (Boston University)

11:45 a.m. Lunch

4 Discussion #1

5 5th forces and astrophysical probes

Speaker: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

6 Atom interferometry, atomic clocks

Speaker: Jason Hogan (Stanford University)

4:15 p.m. Break

7 Non thermal DM/Misalignment

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro (ICTP Trieste)

5:30 p.m. Meet & Greet

Tuesday, September 20

8 Non thermal DM/Misalignment

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro (ICTP Trieste)

10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

9 Atom interferometry, atomic clocks

Speaker: Jason Hogan (Stanford University)

11:45 a.m. Lunch

10 Discussion #2

11 5th forces and astrophysical probes

Speaker: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

12 Probing magnetic-field like effects

Speaker: Alexander Sushkov (Boston University)

4:15 p.m. Break

13 Gravitational effects of DM & Cosmology

Speaker: Lina Necib (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Poster Session

Wednesday, September 21

14 Gravitational effects of DM & Cosmology

Speaker: Lina Necib (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

15 Ultra-Cold Neutrons and the Quantum Bouncing Ball

Speaker: Hartmut Abele (Technical University Vienna)

11:45 a.m. Lunch

16 Standard Model & EDM, g-2

Speaker: Jesse Thaler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

17 Measuring gravity at micron scale and other fun tricks with optically levitated microspheres

I will describe a new program of measurements in fundamental physics using optically levitated dielectric microspheres. The focus of the talk will be the recently completed first search for new, gravity-like interactions at micron scale using this novel technique. I will also show an array of other results, including searches for millicharged particles, Chameleon fields and techniques to manipulate the various degrees of freedom of the trapped microspheres.

Speaker: Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

18 EDM measurements

Speaker: Nick Hutzler (California Institute of Technology)

NRH 2022 09 Perimeter Lecture.pdf

4:15 p.m. Break

19 Quantum / optical mechanical sensors

Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna)

Poster Session

Thursday, September 22

20 Quantum / optical mechanical sensors

Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna)

10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

21 Gravity tests of all scales

Speaker: David Moore (Yale University)

20220922_Perimeter_Lecture1.pdf

11:45 a.m. Lunch

22 Discussion #3

23 Thermal DM

Speaker: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

24 Properties of cavities

Speaker: Konrad Lehnert (JILA Institute)

4:15 p.m. Break

25 Photon sensors

Speaker: Sae Woo Nam (NIST)

5:30 p.m. BBQ

Friday, September 23

26 Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem

Speaker: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

27 Photon sensors

Speaker: Sae Woo Nam (NIST)

11:45 a.m. Lunch

28 Discussion #4

29 Properties of cavities

Speaker: Konrad Lehnert (JILA Institute)

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

30 Thermal DM

Speaker: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

4:15 p.m. Break

31 Gravity tests of all scales

Speaker: David Moore (Yale University)

20220922_Perimeter_Lecture2.pdf