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: Araújo, Henrique
name: Balaž, Antun
name: Bassi, Angelo
name: Bathe-Peters, Lars
name: Battelier, Baptiste
name: Belić, Aleksandar
name: Bentine, Elliot
name: Bernabeu, José
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 S.
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: El Sawy, Mai
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: Gündogan, Mustafa
name: Haehnelt, Martin G.
name: Harte, Tiffany
name: Hees, Aurélien
name: Hobson, Richard
name: Hogan, Jason
name: Holst, Bodil
name: Holynski, Michael
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 Attia
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: Ringwood, Jack
name: Roura, Albert
name: Sabulsky, Dylan
name: Sameed, Muhammed
name: Sauer, Ben
name: Schäffer, Stefan Alaric
name: Schiller, Stephan
name: Schkolnik, Vladimir
name: Schlippert, Dennis
name: Schubert, Christian
name: Sfar, Haifa Rejeb
name: Shayeghi, Armin
name: Shipsey, Ian
name: Signorini, Carla
name: Singh, Yeshpal
name: Soares-Santos, Marcelle
name: Sorrentino, Fiodor
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, André
name: Windpassinger, Patrick
name: Woltmann, Marian
name: Yazgan, Efe
name: Zhan, Ming-Sheng
name: Zou, Xinhao
name: Zupan, Jure
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Review

description: 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. KCL-PH-TH/2019-65, CERN-TH-2019-126