Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity VI

量子引力的实验探索 VI

• 批准号: 1848715
• 负责人: David Mattingly
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1848715&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Search; Quantum; Gravity; VI

The search for quantum gravity, the merger of general relativity and quantum mechanics, has been ongoing for eight decades and will never be finished until we have a complete and experimentally verified theory. While direct, detailed tests of quantum gravity are currently out of reach, there have been numerous proposals for experimental tests that indirectly shed light on one quantum gravity model or another. Many of these proposals rely on re-purposing technology and techniques originally developed for other scientific endeavors. The Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity meetings provide the critical cross-disciplinary environment so that experimentalists with expertise outside quantum gravity and quantum gravity theoreticians can discuss and make progress on both improving existing experimental tests of quantum gravity related physics and creating new ones.The meeting for 2020 will be held at the University of New Hampshire for one week in spring/summer. It will draw between 40-60 faculty and postdocs and have sessions on (1) quantum gravity signatures in cosmology, (2) prospective laboratory tests of aspects of quantum gravity, (3) analog gravity and Hawking radiation in condensed matter systems, (4) strong field observations, including those of black hole-black hole and black hole-neutron star mergers and horizon scale measurements, and corresponding constraints on black hole thermodynamics and quantum gravity motivated modified gravitational theories, and (5) tests of spacetime symmetries. There will two public talks: one on the theoretical and philosophical problems presented by quantum gravity, and one on the experimental tools used to test gravitational physics. Meeting talks and slides will be recorded, collected, and posted online for a period of three years after the meeting. The meeting will connect researchers from disparate theoretical and experimental fields, stimulating work on synthesizing existing techniques, multi-messenger astronomy, and quantum information approaches in quantum gravitational tests, and train younger scientists and students in the varied state of the art approaches.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

对量子引力的探索--广义相对论和量子力学的结合--已经进行了80年，除非我们有一个完整的、经过实验验证的理论，否则永远不会完成。虽然目前还不能对量子引力进行直接、详细的测试，但已经有许多建议进行实验测试，间接揭示一个或另一个量子重力模型。其中许多建议依赖于重新调整用途的技术和最初为其他科学努力开发的技术。量子引力实验探索会议提供了关键的跨学科环境，拥有量子引力和量子引力理论家以外的专业知识的实验者可以讨论并在改进现有的量子重力相关物理实验测试和创造新的实验测试方面取得进展。2020年的会议将于春夏在新汉普郡大学举行，为期一周。它将吸引40-60名教职员工和博士后，并开设以下课程：(1)宇宙学中的量子引力特征，(2)量子重力方面的前瞻性实验室测试，(3)凝聚态系统中的模拟引力和霍金辐射，(4)强场观测，包括黑洞-黑洞和黑洞-中子星合并和视界尺度测量，以及对黑洞热力学和量子重力驱动的修正引力理论的相应约束，以及(5)时空对称性测试。将有两场公开演讲：一场是关于量子引力提出的理论和哲学问题，另一场是关于用于测试引力物理的实验工具。会议演讲和幻灯片将在会议结束后三年内被录制、收集并发布到网上。会议将连接来自不同理论和实验领域的研究人员，刺激在量子引力测试中合成现有技术、多信使天文学和量子信息方法的工作，并培训年轻科学家和学生各种最先进的方法。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。