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Title GAUGE : the GrAnd Unification and Gravity Explorer
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Abstract 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.
Organisation PPD , SSTD , STFC , PPD-CfCP
Keywords Fundamental physics , Space mission , Equivalence principle , Mass-spin coupling , Atom inferometry
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Journal Article Exp Astron 23, no. 2 (2009): 549-572. doi:10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9 2009