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现蓝宝石和石英体声波谐振器及相关技术，推动新型精密频率产生和测量技术超越现有技术水平。该项目计划将这一技术进步应用于广义相对论的极其敏感的测试，以探测普朗克尺度产生的抑制效应。这些测试包括光子和声子违反洛伦兹不变性的新测试，基本常数不变性的测试和基础物理学的其他测试。结果可能导致发现正确的量子引力理论，这是当代物理学中一个未解决的主要问题。