Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100253

Funded Activity Summary

Precision tests of fundamental physics at the electroweak unification scale. The project aims to advance novel precision frequency generation and measurement techniques beyond the present state of the art, through the implementation of sapphire and quartz bulk acoustic wave resonator and related technology at low temperature. The project plans to apply this technological advancement to extremely sensitive tests of General Relativity able to probe suppressed effects emanating from the Planck scale. Such tests include new tests of Lorentz invariance violations of photons and phonons, tests of fundamental constant invariance and other tests of fundamental physics. Results could lead to the discovery of the correct theory of quantum gravity, a major unsolved problem in contemporary physics.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $593,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | General Relativity and Gravitational Waves | Microwave and Millimetrewave Theory and Technology | Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Scientific Instruments | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | General Relativity and Gravitational Waves | Microwave and Millimetrewave Theory and Technology | Scientific Instruments

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