GAUGE: the GrAnd Unification and Gravity Explorer
GAUGE: the GrAnd Unification and Gravity Explorer
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DOI:
10.1007/s10686-008-9086-9
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发表时间:
2009-03
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3
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G. Amelino-Camelia;Karen L. Aplin;Markus Arndt;John D. Barrow;R. Bingham;Christian J. Bordé;P. Bouyer;Martin E. Caldwell;A. Cruise;T. Damour;P. D'Arrigo;H. Dittus;W. Ertmer;B. Foulon;P. Gill;G. D. Hammond;J. Hough;C. Jentsch;Ulrich Johann;P. Jetzer;H. Klein;Astrid Lambrecht;B. Lamine;C. Lämmerzahl;N. Lockerbie;F. Loeffler;J. T. Mendonça;J. Mester;Wei-Tou Ni;C. Pegrum;A. Peters;E. Rasel;Serge Reynaud;D. Shaul;T. Sumner;Stephan Theil;C. Torrie;Pierre Touboul;C. Trenkel;S. Vitale;W. Vodel;Chen Wang;H. Ward;A. Woodgate
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作者:
G. Amelino-Camelia;Karen L. Aplin;Markus Arndt;John D. Barrow;R. Bingham;Christian J. Bordé;P. Bouyer;Martin E. Caldwell;A. Cruise;T. Damour;P. D'Arrigo;H. Dittus;W. Ertmer;B. Foulon;P. Gill;G. D. Hammond;J. Hough;C. Jentsch;Ulrich Johann;P. Jetzer;H. Klein;Astrid Lambrecht;B. Lamine;C. Lämmerzahl;N. Lockerbie;F. Loeffler;J. T. Mendonça;J. Mester;Wei-Tou Ni;C. Pegrum;A. Peters;E. Rasel;Serge Reynaud;D. Shaul;T. Sumner;Stephan Theil;C. Torrie;Pierre Touboul;C. Trenkel;S. Vitale;W. Vodel;Chen Wang;H. Ward;A. Woodgate
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.