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| I. Seeing New Heavy Physics a. Heavy physics leads to small effects. b. Parity Violation can make small effects visible. c. Radiative Corrections d. New Tree Level Interactions II. Parity Violation in Barium+ a. Why Ions, Why Barium b. Ground State Mixing c. Interference d. Standing Waves and Ground State Splitting e. General Experimental Requirements III. Measurement Techniques a. Shelving - 2um Quadrupole Transition b. Spin Pumping c. Spin State Detection d. Stin State Lifetimes e. Spin Flip Transitions IV. Current Plans and Future Challenges a. Spin Decay Profiles b. Spin Precession Profiles c. Off Resonant Dipole Light Shift Ratios d. IR Cooling and Quadrupole Light Shifts e. Laser Stability and Power f. Polarization and Alignment g. Standing Wave Stability | |||||||||||