Recent developments at the interface between quantum vacuum and gravitation

by Dr Roberto Onofrio (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita' di Padova and ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Thursday 6 Jun 2013, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Rome

M.B. Ceolin meeting room (INFN-LNL)

I will discuss some recent progress in three topics at the border between quantum vacuum and gravitation, more specifically the observation of systematic effects in the calibration of Casimir force experiments crucial in the search for short-range components of the gravitational interaction, observable effects of the Higgs field in astrophysics and experimental gravitation, and some implications of a unification scenario between gravity and the weak interactions.