Oral Presentation

Testing the variation of fundamental constants

Author(s): Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica), Sergei A. Levshakov (A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute and St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University), and Christian Henkel (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastonomie)

Presenter: Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica)

We explore the possibility of using ALMA measurements on molecular spectra to test the variation of fundamental constants such as the electron-to-proton mass ratio and the fine-structure constant on cosmological space-time scales.