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| b1155061.mp4 | Streaming Video | View/Open |
| Title: | Superstrings |
| Originating Office: | IAS |
| Speaker: | Chernoff, David |
| Issue Date: | 31-May-2011 |
| Event Date: | 31-May-2011 |
| Group/Series/Folder: | Record Group 8.15 - Institute for Advanced Study Series 3 - Audio-visual Materials |
| Location: | 8.15:3 box 1.7 |
| Notes: | IAS Conference on Cosmology since Einstein. IAS title: Talk 12: 'Searching for Remnant String Loops by Microlensing'. Abstract: Superstring loops form by intercommutation of horizon‐crossing superstrings. The loops are captured and accreted during galaxy formation and a population of these loops resides within the galaxy today. A loop can lens background stars generating a unique signature of repeated, achromatic flux doubling events. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is a large aperture, wide field telescope that is able to image faint astronomical objects across the sky. This instrument can potentially probe the range of string tensions $10^{‐13.5} < G \mu/c^2 < 10^{‐9.5}$ which corresponds to characteristic energies $\sim 10^{12} ‐ 10^{14}$ GeV. Event rates are discussed. Duration: 40 min. |
| Appears in Series: | 8.15:3 - Audio-visual Materials Videos for Public -- Distinguished Lectures |