| Title: |
AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space |
| Authors: |
El-Neaj, Yousef Abou; Alpigiani, Cristiano; Amairi-Pyka, Sana; Araujo, Henrique; Balaz, Antun; Bassi, Angelo; Bathe-Peters, Lars; Battelier, Baptiste; Belic, Aleksandar; Bentine, Elliot; Bernabeu, Jose; Bertoldi, Andrea; Bingham, Robert; Blas, Diego; Bolpasi, Vasiliki; Bongs, Kai; Bose, Sougato; Bouyer, Philippe; Bowcock, Themis; Bowden, William; Buchmueller, Oliver; Burrage, Clare; Calmet, Xavier; Canuel, Benjamin; Caramete, Laurentiu-Ioan; Carroll, Andrew; Cella, Giancarlo; Charmandaris, Vassilis; Chattopadhyay, Swapan; Chen, Xuzong; Chiofalo, Maria Luisa; Coleman, Jonathon; Cotter, Joseph; Cui, Yanou; Derevianko, Andrei; De Roeck, Albert; Djordjevic, Goran; Dornan, Peter; Doser, Michael; Drougkakis, Ioannis; Dunningham, Jacob; Dutan, Ioana; Easo, Sajan; Elertas, Gedminas; Ellis, John; Sawy, Mai El; Fassi, Farida; Felea, Daniel; Feng, Chen-Hao; Flack, Robert; Foot, Chris; Fuentes, Ivette; Gaaloul, Naceur; Gauguet, Alexandre; Geiger, Remi; Gibson, Valerie; Giudice, Gian; Goldwin, Jon; Grachov, Oleg; Graham, Peter W.; Grasso, Dario; van der Grinten, Maurits; Gundogan, Mustafa; Haehnelt, Martin G.; Harte, Tiffany; Hees, Aurelien; Hobson, Richard; Holst, Bodil; Hogan, Jason; Kasevich, Mark; Kavanagh, Bradley J.; von Klitzing, Wolf; Kovachy, Tim; Krikler, Benjamin; Krutzik, Markus; Lewicki, Marek; Lien, Yu-Hung; Liu, Miaoyuan; Luciano, Giuseppe Gaetano; Magnon, Alain; Mahmoud, Mohammed; Malik, Sarah; McCabe, Christopher; Mitchell, Jeremiah; Pahl, Julia; Pal, Debapriya; Pandey, Saurabh; Papazoglou, Dimitris; Paternostro, Mauro; Penning, Bjoern; Peters, Achim; Prevedelli, Marco; Puthiya-Veettil, Vishnupriya; Quenby, John; Rasel, Ernst; Ravenhall, Sean; Sfar, Haifa Rejeb; Ringwood, Jack; Roura, Albert; Sabulsky, Dylan; Sameed, Muhammed; Sauer, Ben; Schaffer, Stefan Alaric; Schiller, Stephan; Schkolnik, Vladimir; Schlippert, Dennis; Schubert, Christian; Shayeghi, Armin; Shipsey, Ian; Signorini, Carla; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sorrentino, Fiodor; Singh, Yajpal; Sumner, Timothy; Tassis, Konstantinos; Tentindo, Silvia; Tino, Guglielmo Maria; Tinsley, Jonathan N.; Unwin, James; Valenzuela, Tristan; Vasilakis, Georgios; Vaskonen, Ville; Vogt, Christian; Webber-Date, Alex; Wenzlawski, Andre; Windpassinger, Patrick; Woltmann, Marian; Holynski, Michael; Yazgan, Efe; Zhan, Ming-Sheng; Zou, Xinhao; Zupan, Jure |
| Source: |
EPJ Quantum Technol. 7, 6 (2020) |
| Publication Year: |
2019 |
| Collection: |
Astrophysics; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; Physics (Other) |
| Subject Terms: |
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics; High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; Physics - Atomic Physics |
| Description: |
We propose in this White Paper a concept for a space experiment using cold atoms to search for ultra-light dark matter, and to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range between the most sensitive ranges of LISA and the terrestrial LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA/INDIGO experiments. This interdisciplinary experiment, called Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration (AEDGE), will also complement other planned searches for dark matter, and exploit synergies with other gravitational wave detectors. We give examples of the extended range of sensitivity to ultra-light dark matter offered by AEDGE, and how its gravitational-wave measurements could explore the assembly of super-massive black holes, first-order phase transitions in the early universe and cosmic strings. AEDGE will be based upon technologies now being developed for terrestrial experiments using cold atoms, and will benefit from the space experience obtained with, e.g., LISA and cold atom experiments in microgravity. This paper is based on a submission (v1) in response to the Call for White Papers for the Voyage 2050 long-term plan in the ESA Science Programme. ESA limited the number of White Paper authors to 30. However, in this version (v2) we have welcomed as supporting authors participants in the Workshop on Atomic Experiments for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration held at CERN: ({\tt https://indico.cern.ch/event/830432/}), as well as other interested scientists, and have incorporated additional material.; Comment: V2 -- added support authors |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1140/epjqt/s40507-020-0080-0 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00802 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1908.00802 |
| Database: |
arXiv |