Physikalisches Kolloquium

Feb. 3, 2015 at 4 p.m. c.t. in Hörsaal des Instituts für Kernphysik, Becherweg 45

Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid
Institut für Physik
friederike.schmid@uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Concettina Sfienti
Institut für Kernphysik
sfienti@uni-mainz.de

Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules
Prof. Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware, USA)


Recent advances in both experimental and theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physics provide remarkable new opportunities for precision measurements and tests of fundamental physics, including searches for permanent electric-dipole moments, parity violation studies, searches for variation of fundamental constants, tests of local Lorentz invariance and the Einstein equivalence principle and many others. I will give an overview of searches for new physics with atoms and molecules, present key results, and highlight select future proposals.