Nuclear and Atomic transitions as laboratories for high precision tests of Quantum Gravity inspired models

19 Sept 2022, 09:00 → 23 Sept 2022, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Leonardi (ECT*)

Antonino Marcianò (Fudan University), Catalina Curceanu (LNF - INFN Frascati), Elisabetta Barberio (Melbourne University), Kristian Piscicchia (Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi), Stephon Alexander (Brown University)

The Workshop has the aim to put together in the excellent and stimulating ECT* environment, for the first time in a dedicated and focused meeting,  experimentalists  and  theoreticians working  in high precision studies of atomic and nuclear physics transitions and related fields, and theoreticians who work on developing Quantum Gravity Inspired Models (QGIM) that predict effects, special signatures of the models, which can be measured in atomic and nuclear transitions.

Recent developments of Quantum Gravity inspired models have produced a wealth of new predictions which are being tested in laboratories. In particular, many of these models foresee the non-commutativity of space-time coordinates, which, in turn, induces a deformation of the Lorentz symmetry and of the locality principle and naturally encodes the violation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle. These studies opened a new window of opportunities to test these models by performing high-precision measurements of atomic and nuclear transitions. Our workshop will hinge on the new profound implications of Quantum Gravity models on the nuclear and atomic physics observables and on the experimental constraints on effective quantum gravity models that arise from atomic and nuclear physics experiments. The Workshop will be opened to world-leading experts and young scientists who will explore several quantum gravity scenarios from complementary theoretical top-down and bottom-up approaches, to boost progress in this field.

Poster_MARCIANO.pdf

Monday 19 September

09:30 → 09:55 Workshop registration

09:55 → 10:00 Welcome ECT* Director

Speaker: Gert Aarts

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome workshop organizers

10:15 → 11:00 Underground test of gravity-related wave function collapse

Speaker: Sandro Donadi

ECT_ 2022_Donadi.pptx

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Experimental studies of collapse models as basis of consciousness and of photon emission by germinating plants

Speaker: Catalina Curceanu

12:15 → 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 → 15:15 Spontaneous wave function collapse models

Speaker: Angelo Bassi

CollapseModels_compressed.pdf

15:15 → 16:00 Astrophysical and cosmological consequences of parity violation in the gravitational sector

Speaker: Stephon Alexander

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:15 Wave function collapse models tests in the cosmic silence

Speaker: Kristian Piscicchia

ECT2022-piscicchia.pdf

17:15 → 18:00 Discussion

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner restaurant Bouganville Trento

Tuesday 20 September

10:15 → 11:00 Astrophysical Probes of Lorentz Violation

Speaker: John Ellis

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 How effectively can we test Quantum Gravity with underground experiments?

Speaker: Antonino Marciano

12:15 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:15 Quantum spacetime: IR/UV mixing, spin-statistics, agency dependence

Speaker: Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

talkECTworkshop2022pdf_AMELINO.pdf

15:15 → 16:00 Pauli Exclusion Principle violations and quantum gravity with the VIP-2 underground experiment

Speaker: Fabrizio Napolitano

NAPOLITANO.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Discussion

Wednesday 21 September

10:15 → 11:00 The decay law in the multichannel case and for moving particles

Speaker: Francesco Giacosa

GiacosaECT2022.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 The equivalence principle and inertial-gravitational decoherence

Speaker: Giorgio Torrieri

decograv.pdf

12:15 → 12:45 Accurate analysis method to detect rare events in VIP-2

Speaker: Alessio Porcelli

XrayRareEventAnalysis.pdf

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

Thursday 22 September

10:00 → 10:45 DAMA/LIBRA results and PEP violations studies

Speaker: Pierluigi Belli

belli_ECT2022_web.pdf

10:45 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Recent advancements in radiation detectors for precision experiments

Speaker: Alessandro Scordo

ECT_22092022_Scordo.pdf

12:15 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:15 Quantum Gravity Phenomenology under “rocks”

Speaker: Andrea Addazi

AddaziECT__2022.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Cascade models for atomic transitions

Speaker: Simone Manti

ECT_Simone_Manti.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 17:00 New exclusion statistics

Speaker: Yong-Shi Wu

17:00 → 17:45 Stochastic Quantization of General Relativity: from multiplicative noise to the cosmological constant

Speaker: Matteo Lulli

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner restaurant Antico Pozzo - Trento

Friday 23 September

10:15 → 11:00 Decoherence and discrete symmetries in Planck-scale deformed relativistic kinematics

Speaker: Michele Arzano

ArzanoECT2022.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 The Schrödinger-Poisson system as an N-body double

Speaker: Fabio Briscese

SeminarioSPE_Trento_20220923.pdf

12:15 → 12:45 Conclusions

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch