GAUGE: the Grand Unification and Gravity Explorer

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia; Karen L. Aplin; Markus Arndt; John D. Barrow; Robert J. Bingham; Christian Borde; Philippe Bouyer; Martin Caldwell; A.M. Cruise; Thibault Damour; Paolo D'Arrigo; Hansjörg J. Dittus; Wolfgang Ertmer; Bernard Foulon; Patrick Gill; Giles D. Hammond; James Hough; Christian Jentsch; Ulrich Johann; Philippe Jetzer; Hugh Klein; Astrid Lambrecht; Brahim Lamine; Claus Lämmerzahl; Nicholas Lockerbie; Frank Loeffler; Jose T. Mendonca; John Mester; Wei-Tou Ni; Colin Pegrum; Antoine H.F.M. Peters; Ernst M. Rasel; Serge Reynaud; Diana Shaul; Timothy J Sumner; Stephan Theil; Calum Torrie; Pierre Touboul; Christian Trenkel; Stefano Vitale; Wolfgang Vodel; Charles H.-T. Wang; Harry Ward; A Woodgate

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GAUGE: the Grand Unification and Gravity Explorer

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Karen L. Aplin, Markus Arndt, John D. Barrow, Robert J. Bingham, Christian Borde, Philippe Bouyer, Martin Caldwell, A.M. Cruise, Thibault Damour, Paolo D'Arrigo, Hansjörg J. Dittus, Wolfgang Ertmer, Bernard Foulon, Patrick Gill, Giles D. Hammond, James Hough, Christian Jentsch, Ulrich Johann, Philippe JetzerHugh Klein, Astrid Lambrecht, Brahim Lamine, Claus Lämmerzahl, Nicholas Lockerbie, Frank Loeffler, Jose T. Mendonca, John Mester, Wei-Tou Ni, Colin Pegrum, Antoine H.F.M. Peters, Ernst M. Rasel, Serge Reynaud, Diana Shaul, Timothy J Sumner, Stephan Theil, Calum Torrie, Pierre Touboul, Christian Trenkel, Stefano Vitale, Wolfgang Vodel, Charles H.-T. Wang, Harry Ward, A Woodgate

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The GAUGE (GrAnd Unification and Gravity Explorer) mission proposes to use a drag-free spacecraft platform onto which a number of experiments are attached. They are designed to address a number of key issues at the interface between gravity and unification with the other forces of nature. The equivalence principle is to be probed with both a high-precision test using classical macroscopic test bodies, and, to lower precision, using microscopic test bodies via cold-atom interferometry. These two equivalence principle tests will explore string-dilaton theories and the effect of space–time fluctuations respectively. The macroscopic test bodies will also be used for intermediate-range inverse-square law and an axion-like spin-coupling search. The microscopic test bodies offer the prospect of extending the range of tests to also include short-range inverse-square law and spin-coupling measurements as well as looking for evidence of quantum decoherence due to space–time fluctuations at the Planck scale.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	549-572
Number of pages	24
Journal	Experimental Astronomy
Volume	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Amelino-Camelia, G., Aplin, K. L., Arndt, M., Barrow, J. D., Bingham, R. J., Borde, C., Bouyer, P., Caldwell, M., Cruise, A. M., Damour, T., D'Arrigo, P., Dittus, H. J., Ertmer, W., Foulon, B., Gill, P., Hammond, G. D., Hough, J., Jentsch, C., Johann, U., ... Woodgate, A. (2009). GAUGE: the Grand Unification and Gravity Explorer. Experimental Astronomy, 23, 549-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9

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