In the last few years there has been a resurgence of interest in small scale high sensitivity experiments that look for new forces and new particles beyond the Standard Model. They promise to expand our understanding of the Cosmos and possibly explain mysteries such as Dark matter in a way that is complementary to colliders and other large scale experiments. There is a number of different physics motivations and approaches currently being explored in many on-going and newly proposed experiments and they often share common experimental techniques.Many workshops in this field focus on the theory motivations behind these experiments without emphasis on the details of the experimental techniques that enable precision measurements. There is also substantial experimental expertise across many fields, often outside of fundamental physics community, that can be relevant to ongoing and proposed experiments.Thus, we decided to organize the workshop around some of the common experimental techniques. We hope it will be educational for both experimentalists and theorists and lead to discussions on the best way forward. We would like to bring together experimentalists with different expertise in the hope that it will lead to new ideas through interdisciplinary interactions. For theorists, we expect it to provide better appreciation of the challenges and opportunities in improving the sensitivity of precision measurement experiments.
Format results
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics -
Theory Talk
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics -
A three-dimensional optical lattice clock: precision at the 19th digit
University of Colorado Boulder -
Measurement of the fine structure constant as a test of the standard model
University of California, Berkeley -
Superconducting accelerometer technology for precision tests of gravitation and search for new interactions
University of Maryland, College Park -
Searching for axions and new short-range forces with resonant sensors
University of Nevada Reno -
Testing Gravity at Extreme Scales
Stanford University -
Precision Physics in Storage Rings
Institute for Basic Science - Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research -
Clock atom interferometry for gravitational wave detection and dark matter searches
Stanford Law School - The Bill Lane Centre for the American West -
Signal processing in precision measurements: a primer for theorists
University of Nevada Reno -
Testing gravity and quantum mechanics using atom interferometry
Stanford University -
Accelerating an axionic dark matter search with quantum technology
University of Colorado Boulder