Quentin G Bailey

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Biography

Quentin G Bailey is generally interested in tests of our best current fundamental theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity, and tests of classical Maxwell electrodynamics. So far, I have been studying the theoretical and experimental aspects of testing Lorentz symmetry, the spacetime symmetry of Special Relativity. The motivation for this work is twofold. First, Lorentz symmetry is a cornerstone of modern physics. As such, it should be an experimental precedent to test this principle in as many ways as possible. Second, recent work on fundamental theories of physics, that attempt to unify the Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity, has pointed to the possibility of deviations from perfect Lorentz symmetry. In the ongoing search for new physics, high-precision, typically low-energy tests of Lorentz symmetry offer a promising alternative to conventional high-energy accelerator experiments. 

Education

• Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Physics: Mathematics, Indiana University-Bloomington
• B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Physics, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

Currently Teaching

• PS 250: Physics for Engineers III
• PS 161: Physics I & II for Engineers
• PS 219: Physics III
• PS 490: Senior Research Thesis, Part I
• PS 199: Special Topics in Physical Sci
• PS 491: Sr Research Thesis, Part II
• PS 430: Thermodyn & Stats Mechanics

Courses Taught

Research Projects

• Gravitational Physics and Cosmology
• Gravitation

Publications

• New Tests of General Relativity (Bailey, Quentin) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• What Do We Know About Lorentz Symmetry? (Bailey, Q. G.) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• Tests of Lorentz Symmetry in the Gravitational Sector (Hees, Aur\u00e9lien, Bailey, Quentin G., Bourgoin, Adrien, Pihan-Le Bars, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, Guerlin, Christine, Le Poncin-Lafitte, Christophe) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• Prospects for SME Tests with Experiments at SYRTE and LKB (Guerlin, C., Pihan-Le Bars, H., Bailey, Q. G., Wolf, P.) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• Improved Tests of Lorentz Invariance in the Matter Sector Using Atomic Clocks (Pihan-Le Bars, H., Guerlin, C., Bailey, Q. G., Bize, S., Wolf, P.) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• Constraints on SME Coefficients from Lunar Laser Ranging, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, and Asteroid Orbital Dynamics (Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Bourgoin, A., Hees, A., Bouquillon, S., Lambert, S., Bailey, Q. G., et al.,) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• Lorentz-Violating Electromagnetostatics (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• Gravity Sector of the SME (Bailey, Q. G.) Quentin Bailey (2019)
• Recent Developments in Spacetime-Symmetry Tests in Gravity (Bailey, Q. G.) Publications (2019)
• A 3+1 Decomposition of the Minimal Standard-Model Extension Gravitational Sector (Nilsson, Nils A., O'Neal-Ault, Kellie, Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2019)
• Testing the Gravitational Weak Equivalence Principle in the Standard-Model Extension with Binary Pulsars (Shao, Lijing, Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2019)
• Testing Velocity-Dependent CPT-Violating Gravitational Forces with Radio Pulsars (Shao, Lijing, Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2018)
• Relating Noncommutative SO(2,3)* Gravity to the Lorentz-Violating Standard-Model Extension (Bailey, Quentin G., Lane, Charles D.) Publications (2018)
• Signals for Lorentz Violation in Post-Newtonian Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Quantum Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle with the STE-QUEST Space Mission (Altschul, Brett, Bailey, Quentin G., Blanchet, Luc, Bongs, Kai, Bouyer, Philippe, Cacciapuoti, Luigi, al., et) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Lorentz-Violating Electrostatics and Magnetostatics (Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Planetary Orbital Dynamics (Hees, A., Bailey, Q. G., Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Bourgoin, A., Rivoldini, A., Lamine, B., Meynadier, F., Guerlin, C., Wolf, P.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Short-Range Gravity and Lorentz Violation (Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan, Xu, Rui) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Lorentz-Symmetry Test at Planck-Scale Suppression with Nucleons in a Spin-Polarized 133 Cs Cold Atom Clock (Pihan-Le Bars, H., Guerlin, C., Lasseri, R.-D., Ebran, J.-P., Bailey, Q. G., Bize, S., Khan, E., Wolf, P.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Velocity-Dependent Inverse Cubic Force and Solar System Gravity Tests (Bailey, Quentin G., Havert, Daniel) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Local Lorentz-Symmetry Breaking and Gravity (Bailey, Q. G.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Gravity Couplings in the Standard-Model Extension (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Anisotropic Cubic Curvature Couplings (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Combined Search for Lorentz Violation in Short-Range Gravity (Shao, Cheng-Gang, Tan, Yu-Jie, Tan, Wen-Hai, Yang, Shan-Qing, Luo, Jun, Tobar, Michael Edmund, Bailey, Quentin G., al., et) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Constraints on Violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B (Overduin, James M., Everett, Ryan D., Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Lorentz Violation and Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2018)
• Lorentz-Symmetry Test at Planck-Scale Suppression with a Spin-Polarized 133Cs Cold Atom Clock (Pihan-Le Bars, H., Guerlin, C., Lasseri, R.-D., Ebran, J.-P., Bailey, Q. G., Bize, S., Khan, E., Wolf, P.) Quentin Bailey (2017)
• Velocity-Dependent Inverse Cubic Force and Solar System Gravity Tests (Bailey, Quentin G., Havert, Daniel) Publications (2017)
• Lorentz-Symmetry Test at Planck-Scale Suppression with Nucleons in a Spin-Polarized 133 Cs Cold Atom Clock (Pihan-Le Bars, H., Guerlin, C., Lasseri, R.-D., Ebran, J.-P., Bailey, Q. G., Bize, S., Khan, E., Wolf, P.) Publications (2017)
• Tests of Lorentz Symmetry in the Gravitational Sector (Hees, Aur\u00e9lien, Bailey, Quentin G., Bourgoin, Adrien, Pihan-Le Bars, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, Guerlin, Christine, Le Poncin-Lafitte, Christophe) Publications (2016)
• Anisotropic Cubic Curvature Couplings (Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2016)
• Combined Search for Lorentz Violation in Short-Range Gravity (Shao, Cheng-Gang, Tan, Yu-Jie, Tan, Wen-Hai, Yang, Shan-Qing, Luo, Jun, Tobar, Michael Edmund, Bailey, Quentin G., al., et) Publications (2016)
• Improved Tests of Lorentz Invariance in the Matter Sector Using Atomic Clocks (Pihan-Le Bars, H., Guerlin, C., Bailey, Q. G., Bize, S., Wolf, P.) Publications (2016)
• Gravity Sector of the SME (Bailey, Q. G.) Publications (2016)
• Prospects for SME Tests with Experiments at SYRTE and LKB (Guerlin, C., Pihan-Le Bars, H., Bailey, Q. G., Wolf, P.) Publications (2016)
• Constraints on SME Coefficients from Lunar Laser Ranging, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, and Asteroid Orbital Dynamics (Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Bourgoin, A., Hees, A., Bouquillon, S., Lambert, S., Bailey, Q. G., et al.,) Publications (2016)
• Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Planetary Orbital Dynamics (Hees, A., Bailey, Q. G., Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Bourgoin, A., Rivoldini, A., Lamine, B., Meynadier, F., Guerlin, C., Wolf, P.) Publications (2015)
• What Do We Know About Lorentz Symmetry? (Bailey, Q. G.) Publications (2015)
• Lorentz Violation with an Antisymmetric Tensor (Altschul, Brett, Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan) Quentin Bailey (2015)
• Lorentz-Violating Gravitoelectromagnetism (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2015)
• Limits on Violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B (Bailey, Quentin G, Everett, Ryan D., Overduin, James M.) Quentin Bailey (2015)
• Time-Delay and Doppler Tests of the Lorentz Symmetry of Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2015)
• Catching Relativity Violations with Atoms (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2015)
• Light-Bending Tests of Lorentz Invariance (Bailey, Quentin G, Tso, Rhondale) Quentin Bailey (2015)
• Short-Range Gravity and Lorentz Violation (Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan, Xu, Rui) Publications (2015)
• Quantum Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle with the STE-QUEST Space Mission (Altschul, Brett, Bailey, Quentin G., Blanchet, Luc, Bongs, Kai, Bouyer, Philippe, Cacciapuoti, Luigi, al., et) Publications (2015)
• Local Lorentz-Symmetry Breaking and Gravity (Bailey, Q. G.) Publications (2014)
• Constraints on Violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B (Overduin, James M., Everett, Ryan D., Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2014)
• Limits on Violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B (Bailey, Quentin G, Everett, Ryan D., Overduin, James M.) Physics & Astronomy - Prescott (2013)
• Light-Bending Tests of Lorentz Invariance (Bailey, Quentin G, Tso, Rhondale) Physics & Astronomy - Prescott (2011)
• Gravity Couplings in the Standard-Model Extension (Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2010)
• New Tests of General Relativity (Bailey, Quentin) Publications (2010)
• Lorentz-Violating Gravitoelectromagnetism (Bailey, Quentin G.) Physics & Astronomy - Prescott (2010)
• Light Bending and Gravitational Lensing as Tests of Lorentz Symmetry (Tso, Rhondale, Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2010)
• Lorentz Violation and Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2010)
• Lorentz Violation with an Antisymmetric Tensor (Altschul, Brett, Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan) Physics & Astronomy - Prescott (2010)
• Time-Delay and Doppler Tests of the Lorentz Symmetry of Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G.) Physics & Astronomy - Prescott (2009)
• Catching Relativity Violations with Atoms (Bailey, Quentin G.) Physics & Astronomy - Prescott (2009)
• Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2007)
• Lorentz Violation and Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G.) Quentin Bailey (2007)
• Signals for Lorentz Violation in Post-Newtonian Gravity (Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan) Publications (2006)
• Lorentz-Violating Electrostatics and Magnetostatics (Bailey, Quentin G., Kosteleck\u00fd, V. Alan) Publications (2004)
• Lorentz-Violating Electromagnetostatics (Bailey, Quentin G.) Publications (2004)

Publications

"Testing Lorentz symmetry with planetary dynamics" (with Aurelien Hees et al.), Phys. Rev. D 92, 064049 (2015)

"Short-range gravity and Lorentz violation" (with V.A. Kostelecky and Rui Xu), Phys. Rev. D 91 , 022006 (2015)

"Quantum Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle with the STE-QUEST Space Mission", accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research, 2014

"Limits on violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B", Phys. Rev. D 88, 102001 (2013) (with J. Overduin and R. Everett) 

"Local Lorentz-Symmetry Breaking and Gravity", presented at the Sixth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, June 2013

"Constraints on violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B", (with J. Overduin and R. Everett), presented at the Sixth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, June 2013, 

"Light-bending tests of Lorentz invariance", (with undergraduate Rhondale Tso), Phys. Rev. D 84, 085025 (2011) 

"New tests of General Relativity, in Matters of Gravity", The Newsletter of the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society, Volume 36, Fall 2010 

"Gravity Couplings in the Standard-Model Extension", in CPT and Lorentz Symmetry V, World Scientific, 2011. 

"Gravitational Lensing and Light Bending as tests of Lorentz Symmetry",(with Rhondale Tso), in CPT and Lorentz Symmetry V, World Scientific, 2011.

"Lorentz-violating gravitoelectromagnetism", Phys. Rev. D 82, 065012 (2010). 

"Lorentz violation with an antisymmetric tensor, (with B. Altschul and V.A. Kostelecky), Phys. Rev. D 81, 065028 (2010). 

"Lorentz Violation and Gravity", in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium 261: Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy, 2009.

"Catching relativity violations with atoms", Physics 2, 58, 2009. 

"Time-delay and Doppler tests of the Lorentz symmetry of gravity", Phys. Rev. D 80, 044004 (2009). 

"Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Gravity, in CPT and Lorentz Symmetry IV", World Scientific, 2008. 

"Lorentz Violation and Gravity", Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 2007.

"Signals for Lorentz Violation in Post-Newtonian Gravity" (with V.A. Kostelecky), Phys. Rev. D 74, 045001 (2006). [TOPCITE 150+] 

"Lorentz-Violating Electrostatics and Magnetostatics" (with V.A. Kostelecky), Phys. Rev. D 70, 076006 (2004). [TOPCITE 100+] 

Professional Experience

Visiting Scientist, Paris Observatory, Summer 2019

Visiting Scientist, Paris Observatory, Summer 2015

Visiting Associate Professor, Indiana University, Spring 2014

Research Assistant and Associate Instructor, Indiana University, 2001-2007

Peer Instructor of mathematics and Research Assistant in Fluid Dynamics, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-2001

Memberships and Credentials

Member: American Physical Society

International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation

American Association of Physics Teachers

Phi Beta Kappa

Sigma Pi Sigma

Awards, Honors and Recognitions

3 year National Science Foundation $89,810 award "RUI: Testing Spacetime Symmetry Foundations of General Relativity"

Campus Researcher of the Year, ERAU Prescott Campus, 2014-2015

3 year National Science Foundation $127,130 award "RUI Proposal to Test Fundamental Principles of General Relativity"

May 2010 and May 2009: Service Excellence Award Nomination, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Departmental Award as Outstanding Graduate Research Student in Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 2005.

Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Award as Outstanding Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 2004.

Halliday-Resnick Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 2001.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy Academic Achievement Award, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 2000.