the systematic search for Lorentz violation

by Prof. Jay Tasson

Monday 30 Sept 2019, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

A broad and general search for Lorentz violation across all of physics has been in progress for the past several decades.  The primary motivation is to search for a signal of new physics, possibly originating at the Planck scale.  This talk will review the structure of the gravitational Standard-Model Extension framework for systematically searching for Lorentz violation, then narrow to recent efforts in gravitational physics. Proposals and tests involving systems such as gravitational wave propagation, the MICROSCOPE equivalence-principle mission, and Sagnac gyroscopes will be discussed.

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