The impact of atomic precision measurements in high energy physics

Abstract

In this talk I discuss the relevance of atomic physics in understanding some important questions about elementary particle physics. A particular attention is devoted to atomic parity violation measurements which seem to suggest new physics beyond the Standard Model. Atomic physics might also be relevant in discovering possible violations of the CPT symmetry.Comment: Talk given at the XVII International Conference on Atomic Physics, ICAP 2000, Florence, June 4-9, 2000. LaTeX, p.16. A sentence and a reference have been modifie