David Moore
Yale University, USA
Levitated mechanical sensors for dark matter and neutrinos
The control and measurement of massive objects using light has revolutionized the detection of tiny forces in recent years. I will describe experiments using optically levitated sensors to search for dark matter, and to detect the “kick” from the decay of a single radioactive nucleus within the sensor. Such techniques promise to enable a variety of new searches at the precision frontier of nuclear and particle physics.