Speaker: Yu-Dai Tsai (UC Irvine)
Planetary Defense and Space Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics: Dark Matter, Gravity, and Cosmic Neutrinos
"I will talk about using planetary/asteroidal data and space quantum technologies to study fundamental physics. I will first show a proposal using space quantum clocks to study solar-halo ultralight dark matter, motivated by the NASA deep space atomic clock (DSAC) and Parker Solar Probe (PSP).We then discuss new constraints on fifth forces using asteroidal data. We will show preliminary results of the robust constraints by using the NASA JPL program and asteroid tracking data that are used for planetary defense purposes. We then discuss model-independent constraints on any dark matter models through pure gravity."