Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry

Antun Balaz, Diego Blas, Oliver Buchmueller, Sergio Calatroni, Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete, David Cerdeno, Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Fabio Di Pumpo, Goran Djordjevic, John Ellis, Pierre Fayet, Chris Foot, Naceur Gaaloul, Susan Gardner, Barry M Garraway, Alexandre Gauguet, Enno Giese, Jason M. Hogan, Onur Hosten, Alex Kehagias, Eva Kilian, Tim Kovachy, Carlos Lacasta, Marek Lewicki, Elias Lopez Asamar, J.Luis Lopez-Gonzalez, Nathan Lundblad, Michele Maggiore, Christopher McCabe, John McFerran, Gaetano Mileti, Peter Millington, Gavin W. Morley, Senad Odzak, Chris Overstreet, Krzysztof Pawlowski, Emanuele Pelucchi, Johann Rafelski, Albert Roura, Marianna S. Safronova, Florian Schreck, Olga Sergijenko, Yeshpal Singh, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Guglielmo M. Tino, J. N. Tinsley, Hendrik Ulbricht, Maurits van der Grinten, Ville Vaskonen, Wolf von Klitzing, Andre Xuereb, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

27/3/25 Published in : arXiv:2503.21366

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 \sim 100m, 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.

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