Workshop on Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity

Project funded by Swedish Research Council (Project grant), grant 2009-07873_VR. Participating organisations named by the source: KTH, Royal Institute of Technology. Funded amount: SEK 40,500, as stated by the source. Runs 2010-01-01 to 2010-12-31. Keywords: Oklassificerat, Unclassified. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2025-12-05); national funding data, not CORDIS. Abstract given by the source: Experimental tests of quantum gravity have long thought to be impossible, and thus did not receive the necessary attention and effort. During the last decade, various possibilities to test quantum gravity have been investigated that could help to find a theory of quantum gravity, or at least constrain the properties this theory should have. Research on quantum gravity has so far been mainly guided by mathematical consistency. The guidance by phenomenology that this workshop focuses on is an essential ingredient for progress. The phenomenology of quantum gravity combines many different fields of theoretical and experimental physics, from collider physics and high precision measurements, over astrophysics to cosmology. It is therefore essential to support the exchange between these researchers that in many cases have a different background. The topics that will be discussed at this workshop are - Predictions for existent and planned Earth-based experiments (accelerators, high-precision measurements), possibly in scenarios with a lowered Planck scale. - Cosmological measurements: leftover signatures from the universe´s early quantum phase (e.g. in the cosmic microwave background, or large and small scale structure ). - Astrophysical measurements: cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae. - Quantum effects caused by space-time fuzziness (decoherence), status and proposals for experiments. - Miscellaneous and other (emergent gravity, non-locality, etc.)

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AI-assisted summary: The workshop on Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity, funded by the Swedish Research Council, ran from January 1 to December 31, 2010, with a grant of SEK 40,500. It involved KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, focusing on testing quantum gravity through various interdisciplinary approaches. Suggested technology pillar: simulation. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.