Quantum Colloquium on January 9, 2025

Speaker at the colloquium will be Dr. Dmitry Budker, Professor at the Mainz University (Germany) and the University of California (Berkeley, USA)

Topic: Parity Violation in Atoms and Molecules: the seventh decade

Parity violation in beta decay was discovered in 1956 and already two years later, Ya. B. Zel’dovich proposed that weak neutral currents, if they exist, should result in effects in atoms that are observable in principle. It took more than a decade to realize (as was done by the Bouchiats) that the effect is enhanced in heavy atoms, and atomic parity violation was finally observed in the late 1970s in Novosibirsk and Berkeley. Today, atomic parity violation is a field of precision measurement and one of the ways to search for physics beyond the standard model, including elucidating the nature of dark matter. Observation of molecular parity violation remains an unmet challenge.

To predict the number of participants, please fill out the application form by January 7, 2025.

Photography and filming will take place during the event, the materials will be posted on the social media and website of the Latvian Quantum Initiative.