AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space
Creators: name: El-Neaj, Yousef Abou
name: Alpigiani, Cristiano
name: Amairi-Pyka, Sana
name: Araujo, Henrique
name: Balaz, Antun
name: Bassi, Angelo
name: Bathe-Peters, Lars
name: Battelier, Baptiste
name: Belic, Aleksandar
name: Bentine, Elliot
name: Bernabeu, Jose
name: Bertoldi, Andrea
name: Bingham, Robert
name: Blas, Diego
name: Bolpasi, Vasiliki
name: Bongs, Kai
name: Bose, Sougato
name: Bouyer, Philippe
name: Bowcock, Themis
name: Bowden, William
name: Buchmueller, Oliver
name: Burrage, Clare
name: Calmet, Xavier
name: Canuel, Benjamin
name: Caramete, Laurentiu-Ioan
name: Carroll, Andrew
name: Cella, Giancarlo
name: Charmandaris, Vassilis
name: Chattopadhyay, Swapan
name: Chen, Xuzong
name: Chiofalo, Maria Luisa
name: Coleman, Jonathon
name: Cotter, Joseph
name: Cui, Yanou
name: Derevianko, Andrei
name: De Roeck, Albert
name: Djordjevic, Goran
name: Dornan, Peter
name: Doser, Michael
name: Drougkakis, Ioannis
name: Dunningham, Jacob
name: Dutan, Ioana
name: Easo, Sajan
name: Elertas, Gedminas
name: Ellis, John
name: Sawy, Mai El
name: Fassi, Farida
name: Felea, Daniel
name: Feng, Chen-Hao
name: Flack, Robert
name: Foot, Chris
name: Fuentes, Ivette
name: Gaaloul, Naceur
name: Gauguet, Alexandre
name: Geiger, Remi
name: Gibson, Valerie
name: Giudice, Gian
name: Goldwin, Jon
name: Grachov, Oleg
name: Graham, Peter W.
name: Grasso, Dario
name: van der Grinten, Maurits
name: Gundogan, Mustafa
name: Haehnelt, Martin G.
name: Harte, Tiffany
name: Hees, Aurelien
name: Hobson, Richard
name: Holst, Bodil
name: Hogan, Jason
name: Kasevich, Mark
name: Kavanagh, Bradley J.
name: von Klitzing, Wolf
name: Kovachy, Tim
name: Krikler, Benjamin
name: Krutzik, Markus
name: Lewicki, Marek
name: Lien, Yu-Hung
name: Liu, Miaoyuan
name: Luciano, Giuseppe Gaetano
name: Magnon, Alain
name: Mahmoud, Mohammed
name: Malik, Sarah
name: McCabe, Christopher
name: Mitchell, Jeremiah
name: Pahl, Julia
name: Pal, Debapriya
name: Pandey, Saurabh
name: Papazoglou, Dimitris
name: Paternostro, Mauro
name: Penning, Bjoern
name: Peters, Achim
name: Prevedelli, Marco
name: Puthiya-Veettil, Vishnupriya
name: Quenby, John
name: Rasel, Ernst
name: Ravenhall, Sean
name: Sfar, Haifa Rejeb
name: Ringwood, Jack
name: Roura, Albert
name: Sabulsky, Dylan
name: Sameed, Muhammed
name: Sauer, Ben
name: Schaffer, Stefan Alaric
name: Schiller, Stephan
name: Schkolnik, Vladimir
name: Schlippert, Dennis
name: Schubert, Christian
name: Shayeghi, Armin
name: Shipsey, Ian
name: Signorini, Carla
name: Soares-Santos, Marcelle
name: Sorrentino, Fiodor
name: Singh, Yajpal
name: Sumner, Timothy
name: Tassis, Konstantinos
name: Tentindo, Silvia
name: Tino, Guglielmo Maria
name: Tinsley, Jonathan N.
name: Unwin, James
name: Valenzuela, Tristan
name: Vasilakis, Georgios
name: Vaskonen, Ville
name: Vogt, Christian
name: Webber-Date, Alex
name: Wenzlawski, Andre
name: Windpassinger, Patrick
name: Woltmann, Marian
name: Holynski, Michael
name: Yazgan, Efe
name: Zhan, Ming-Sheng
name: Zou, Xinhao
name: Zupan, Jure
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

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.
description: V2 -- added support authors