Speaker
Wolfram Ratzinger
Description
The isomer transition of Th-229 has recently been excited for the first time by a VUV laser and subsequently the transition energy has been determined with a relative error of $O(10^{-6})$ (by now even $O(10^{-10})$). Due to its enhanced sensitivity to scalars coupling to the nuclear sector compared to other optical clocks, measurements of the lineshape will soon start probing uncharted parameter space as I will discuss. This is even before an optical clock based on this transition is realized.
Primary authors
Chaitanya Paranjape
Ekkehard Peik
Elina Fuchs
Eric Madge
Fiona Kirk
Gilad Perez
Johannes Tiedau
Wolfram Ratzinger
