AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.00802,
title = {AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space},
author = {Yousef Abou El-Neaj and Cristiano Alpigiani and Sana Amairi-Pyka and Henrique Araujo and Antun Balaz and Angelo Bassi and Lars Bathe-Peters and Baptiste Battelier and Aleksandar Belic and Elliot Bentine and Jose Bernabeu and Andrea Bertoldi and Robert Bingham and Diego Blas and Vasiliki Bolpasi and Kai Bongs and Sougato Bose and Philippe Bouyer and Themis Bowcock and William Bowden and Oliver Buchmueller and Clare Burrage and Xavier Calmet and Benjamin Canuel and Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete and Andrew Carroll and Giancarlo Cella and Vassilis Charmandaris and Swapan Chattopadhyay and Xuzong Chen and Maria Luisa Chiofalo and Jonathon Coleman and Joseph Cotter and Yanou Cui and Andrei Derevianko and Albert De Roeck and Goran Djordjevic and Peter Dornan and Michael Doser and Ioannis Drougkakis and Jacob Dunningham and Ioana Dutan and Sajan Easo and Gedminas Elertas and John Ellis and Mai El Sawy and Farida Fassi and Daniel Felea and Chen-Hao Feng and Robert Flack and Chris Foot and Ivette Fuentes and Naceur Gaaloul and Alexandre Gauguet and Remi Geiger and Valerie Gibson and Gian Giudice and Jon Goldwin and Oleg Grachov and Peter W. Graham and Dario Grasso and Maurits van der Grinten and Mustafa Gundogan and Martin G. Haehnelt and Tiffany Harte and Aurelien Hees and Richard Hobson and Bodil Holst and Jason Hogan and Mark Kasevich and Bradley J. Kavanagh and Wolf von Klitzing and Tim Kovachy and Benjamin Krikler and Markus Krutzik and Marek Lewicki and Yu-Hung Lien and Miaoyuan Liu and Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano and Alain Magnon and Mohammed Mahmoud and Sarah Malik and Christopher McCabe and Jeremiah Mitchell and Julia Pahl and Debapriya Pal and Saurabh Pandey and Dimitris Papazoglou and Mauro Paternostro and Bjoern Penning and Achim Peters and Marco Prevedelli and Vishnupriya Puthiya-Veettil and John Quenby and Ernst Rasel and Sean Ravenhall and Haifa Rejeb Sfar and Jack Ringwood and Albert Roura and Dylan Sabulsky and Muhammed Sameed and Ben Sauer and Stefan Alaric Schaffer and Stephan Schiller and Vladimir Schkolnik and Dennis Schlippert and Christian Schubert and Armin Shayeghi and Ian Shipsey and Carla Signorini and Marcelle Soares-Santos and Fiodor Sorrentino and Yajpal Singh and Timothy Sumner and Konstantinos Tassis and Silvia Tentindo and Guglielmo Maria Tino and Jonathan N. Tinsley and James Unwin and Tristan Valenzuela and Georgios Vasilakis and Ville Vaskonen and Christian Vogt and Alex Webber-Date and Andre Wenzlawski and Patrick Windpassinger and Marian Woltmann and Michael Holynski and Efe Yazgan and Ming-Sheng Zhan and Xinhao Zou and Jure Zupan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00802},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
V2 -- added support authors