SAGE: A proposal for a space atomic gravity explorer

Guglielmo Tino , Angelo Bassi (1) , Giuseppe Bianco , Kai Bongs (2) , Philippe Bouyer (3) , Luigi Cacciapuoti (4) , Salvatore Capozziello (5) , Xuzong Chen , Maria Chiofalo , Andrei Derevianko , Wolfgang Ertmer (6) , Naceur Gaaloul (7) , Patrick Gill , Peter Graham (8) , Jason Hogan , Luciano Iess (9) , M. A. Kasevich , Hidetoshi Katori , Carsten Klempt , Xuanhui Lu , L. -S. Ma , Holger Müller (10) , Nathan Newbury , Chris Oates , Achim Peters (11) , Nicola Poli , Ernst Rasel (6) , Gabriele Rosi , Albert Roura (12) , Christophe Salomon (13) , Stephan Schiller (14) , Wolfgang P. Schleich (15) , Dennis Schlippert , Florian Schreck (13) , Christian Schubert (6) , Fiodor Sorrentino (16) , Uwe Sterr (17) , J. W. Thomsen , Giuseppe Vallone , Flavio Vetrano , Paolo Villoresi , Wolf von Klitzing , David Wilkowski (18) , Peter Wolf (19, 20) , Jun Ye (21) , Nan Yu (22) , Mingsheng Zhan (23) , Long-Sheng Ma

1 INFN, Sezione di Trieste - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
2 School of Physics and Astronomy [Birmingham]
3 LP2N - Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences
4 ESA - Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency
5 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche [Naples]
6 IQ - Institut für Quantenoptik [Hannover]
7 PPM - Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire
8 KTH - KTH Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm]
9 DIMA - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale [Roma La Sapienza]
10 Department of Physics [Berkeley]
11 Institut fur Physik, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
12 Institut für Quantenphysik
13 LKB (Lhomond) - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
14 Institut fur Experimentalphysik
15 Abteilung Quantenphysik
16 INFN Sezione di Firenze
17 PTB - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt [Braunschweig]
18 LOD - Laboratoire Ondes et Désordre
19 IRIS - Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
20 Observatoire de Paris
21 Sichuan University of Science & Engineering
22 IGE - Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement
23 Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics

The proposed mission "Space Atomic Gravity Explorer" (SAGE) has the scientific objective to investigate gravitational waves, dark matter, and other fundamental aspects of gravity as well as the connection between gravitational physics and quantum physics using new quantum sensors, namely, optical atomic clocks and atom interferometers based on ultracold strontium atoms.

Keywords: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Physics - Atomic Physics; Quantum Physics

Domains: Other [cond-mat.other]; Quantum Physics [quant-ph]; Atomic Physics [physics.atom-ph]; Space Physics [physics.space-ph]; Optics / Photonic

Guglielmo Tino, Angelo Bassi, Giuseppe Bianco, Kai Bongs, Philippe Bouyer, et al.. SAGE: A proposal for a space atomic gravity explorer. The European Physical Journal D : Atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, 2019, 73 (11), ⟨10.1140/epjd/e2019-100324-6⟩. ⟨hal-02379587⟩