Nuclear clocks for testing fundamental physics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09304v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:45:59 GMT
• Title: Nuclear clocks for testing fundamental physics
• Authors: E. Peik, T. Schumm, M. S. Safronova, A. P\'alffy, J. Weitenberg and P. G. Thirolf
• Abstract summary: The low-energy, long-lived isomer in $229$Th continues to inspire a multidisciplinary community of physicists. It is possible to build a highly precise nuclear clock based on resonant of the electron shell. The nuclear clock will open opportunities for highly sensitive tests of fundamental principles of physics.
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• Abstract: The low-energy, long-lived isomer in $^{229}$Th, first studied in the 1970s as an exotic feature in nuclear physics, continues to inspire a multidisciplinary community of physicists. Using the nuclear resonance frequency, determined by the strong and electromagnetic interactions inside the nucleus, it is possible to build a highly precise nuclear clock that will be fundamentally different from all other atomic clocks based on resonant frequencies of the electron shell. The nuclear clock will open opportunities for highly sensitive tests of fundamental principles of physics, particularly in searches for violations of Einstein's equivalence principle and for new particles and interactions beyond the standard model. It has been proposed to use the nuclear clock to search for variations of the electromagnetic and strong coupling constants and for dark matter searches. The $^{229}$Th nuclear optical clock still represents a major challenge in view of the tremendous gap of nearly 17 orders of magnitude between the present uncertainty in the nuclear transition frequency and the natural linewidth. Significant experimental progress has been achieved in recent years, which will be briefly reviewed. Moreover, a research strategy will be outlined to consolidate our present knowledge about essential $^{229\rm{m}}$Th properties, to determine the nuclear transition frequency with laser spectroscopic precision, realize different types of nuclear clocks and apply them in precision frequency comparisons with optical atomic clocks to test fundamental physics. Two avenues will be discussed: laser-cooled trapped $^{229}$Th ions that allow experiments with complete control on the nucleus-electron interaction and minimal systematic frequency shifts, and Th-doped solids enabling experiments at high particle number and in different electronic environments.

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