Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry
Abstract
Long-baseline atom interferometry is a promising technique for probing various aspects of fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology, including searches for ultralight dark matter (ULDM) and for gravitational waves (GWs) in the frequency range around 1~Hz that is not covered by present and planned detectors using laser interferometry. The MAGIS detector is under construction at Fermilab, as is the MIGA detector in France. The PX46 access shaft to the LHC has been identified as a very suitable site for an atom interferometer of height m, sites at the Boulby mine in the UK and the Canfranc Laboratory are also under investigation, and possible sites for km-class detectors have been suggested. The Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry (TVLBAI) Proto-Collaboration proposes a coordinated programme of interferometers of increasing baselines.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.21366,
title = {Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry},
author = {Antun Balaz and Diego Blas and Oliver Buchmueller and Sergio Calatroni and Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete and David Cerdeno and Maria Luisa Chiofalo and Fabio Di Pumpo and Goran Djordjevic and John Ellis and Pierre Fayet and Chris Foot and Naceur Gaaloul and Susan Gardner and Barry M Garraway and Alexandre Gauguet and Enno Giese and Jason M. Hogan and Onur Hosten and Alex Kehagias and Eva Kilian and Tim Kovachy and Carlos Lacasta and Marek Lewicki and Elias Lopez Asamar and J. Luis Lopez-Gonzalez and Nathan Lundblad and Michele Maggiore and Christopher McCabe and John McFerran and Gaetano Mileti and Peter Millington and Gavin W. Morley and Senad Odzak and Chris Overstreet and Krzysztof Pawlowski and Emanuele Pelucchi and Johann Rafelski and Albert Roura and Marianna S. Safronova and Florian Schreck and Olga Sergijenko and Yeshpal Singh and Marcelle Soares-Santos and Nikolaos Stergioulas and Guglielmo M. Tino and J. N. Tinsley and Hendrik Ulbricht and Maurits van der Grinten and Ville Vaskonen and Wolf von Klitzing and Andre Xuereb and Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21366},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Submission to the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics on behalf of the TVLBAI Proto-Collaboration: V2: Minor corrections to author list