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GAUGE: The grAnd unification and gravity explorer
- Source :
- Experimental Astronomy, Experimental Astronomy, springer Link, 2009, 23, pp.549-572. ⟨10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9⟩, Experimental Astronomy, 2009, 23, pp.549-572. ⟨10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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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. © Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2008.
- Subjects :
- Gravity (chemistry)
Quantum decoherence
Unification
530 Physics
fundamental physics
space mission
Space missions
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Gravitation
1912 Space and Planetary Science
[PHYS.QPHY]Physics [physics]/Quantum Physics [quant-ph]
0103 physical sciences
Grand Unified Theory
spin coupling
Equivalence principle
010306 general physics
Unified field theory
Physics
atom interferometry
equivalence principle
mass-spin coupling
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mass
Gauge (firearms)
Classical mechanics
Space and Planetary Science
10231 Institute for Computational Science
[PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc]
3103 Astronomy and Astrophysics
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09226435 and 15729508
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Experimental Astronomy, Experimental Astronomy, springer Link, 2009, 23, pp.549-572. ⟨10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9⟩, Experimental Astronomy, 2009, 23, pp.549-572. ⟨10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6994aa5e96b7f45b149719bcaff3541a