FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS EXPLORED WITH HIGH INTENSITY LASER

High Intensity Laser Physics at the Tata Institute

Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. The Institute currently has a 20 terawatt (TW), 30 femtosecond (fs) table top chirped pulse amplifi cation (CPA) titanium -sapphire laser facility and will have a fully functional 100 TW, 25 fs facility by the middle of 2011. This upgradation would propel existing research at the Institute to address ultraintense lasermatter interaction studie...

Physics with High Intensity Neutron Sources

Fundamental physics with LISA

LISA has the potential to make observations that probe deeply into fundamental physics. Not only will it test to exquisite precision the general relativity model for gravitational radiation, but will also test strong-field gravity and in particular the proposition that all black holes are described by the Kerr metric. More research is needed, however, on how to quantify the theoretical meaning ...

Testing fundamental physics with high-energy cosmic rays

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Strong laser fields as a probe for fundamental physics

Upcoming high-intensity laser systems will be able to probe the quantum-induced nonlinear regime of electrodynamics. So far unobserved QED phenomena such as the discovery of a nonlinear response of the quantum vacuum to macroscopic electromagnetic fields can become accessible. In addition, such laser systems provide for a flexible tool for investigating fundamental physics. Primary goals consis...