Precision tests of fundamental physics at the electroweak unification scale

电弱统一尺度基础物理的精密测试

• 批准号: DP160100253
• 负责人: Prof Michael Tobar
• 金额: $ 41.59万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160100253
• 关键词: Precision; tests; fundamental; physics; electroweak

The project aims to advance novel precision frequency generation and measurement techniques beyond the present state of the art, through the implementation of sapphire and quartz bulk acoustic wave resonator and related technology at low temperature. The project plans to apply this technological advancement to extremely sensitive tests of General Relativity able to probe suppressed effects emanating from the Planck scale. Such tests include new tests of Lorentz invariance violations of photons and phonons, tests of fundamental constant invariance and other tests of fundamental physics. Results could lead to the discovery of the correct theory of quantum gravity, a major unsolved problem in contemporary physics.

该项目旨在通过在低温下实施蓝宝石和石英散装声波谐振器和相关技术，将新颖的精确频率产生和测量技术超越当前的最新状态。该项目计划将这种技术进步应用于能够抑制普朗克量表产生的效果的一般相对论的极敏感测试。这样的测试包括洛伦兹不变性违反光子和声子的新测试，基本恒定不变性的测试以及其他基本物理测试。结果可能导致发现正确的量子重力理论，这是当代物理学中的主要未解决问题。