Conveners
Thursday Afternoon I
- Jamie McDonald (University of Manchester)
Proposed theories of harmonizing gravity and quantum mechanics at low energies suggest novel features such as fluctuations in the spacetime metric and collapse of massive quantum superpositions. How can these features be probed experimentally?
We have recently shown how high-precision tabletop laser interferometers can distinguish different classes of spacetime fluctuations as characterized...
Cryogenic transition edge sensors (TESs) are single photon detectors featuring excellent energy resolution below 10% and high quantum efficiency at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. If black-body backgrounds can be suppressed to sufficiently low levels, such detectors would be ideally suited for experiments searching for photon-axion conversion at these wavelengths such as...
