SpaceQ -- Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter with Space Quantum Sensors

Tsai, Yu-Dai; Eby, Joshua; Safronova, M. S.

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1297569/v1

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“…It is possible that some local over-density of ultralight dark matter could be bound to the Sun. A clock-comparison satellite mission with two clocks onboard sent to the inner reaches of the solar system was proposed in [31] to search for the dark matter halo bound to the Sun, probe natural relaxion 1 parameter space, and look for the spatial variation of the fundamental constants associated with a change in the gravitation potential.…”

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Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map

Alonso,

Alpigiani,

Altschul

et al. 2022

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We summarize the discussions at a virtual Community Workshop on Cold Atoms in Space concerning the status of cold atom technologies, the prospective scientific and societal opportunities offered by their deployment in space, and the developments needed before cold atoms could be operated in space. The cold atom technologies discussed include atomic clocks, quantum gravimeters and accelerometers, and atom interferometers. Prospective applications include metrology, geodesy and measurement of terrestrial mass change due to, e.g., climate change, and fundamental science experiments such as tests of the equivalence principle, searches for dark matter, measurements of gravitational waves and tests of quantum mechanics. We review the current status of cold atom technologies and outline the requirements for their space qualification, including the development paths and the corresponding technical milestones, and identifying possible pathfinder missions to pave the way for missions to exploit the full potential of cold atoms in space. Finally, we present a first draft of a possible roadmap for achieving these goals, that we propose for discussion by the interested cold atom, Earth Observation, fundamental physics and other prospective scientific user communities, together with ESA and national space and research funding agencies. research areas. As anticipated for a Europe-based event, about 80% of the registrations are from European countries, as seen in the lower right panel of Fig. 1, but there is also significant North American and Asian participation.This community provides the backbone for long-term planning and the support needed to see the challenging cold atom missions foreseen in the road-map through to their successful completions. The participants display an excellent and diverse mix of expertise, building an outstanding basis for the success of the workshop and the development of the corresponding road-map, which defines possible interim and long-term scientific goals and outlines technological milestones. Section 2 is an introduction to our document, Sections 3 to 5 discuss our main science themes, namely atomic clocks, Earth Observation and fundamental physics, Section 6 discusses the technology developments required before quantum sensors can be deployed in space, Section 7 summarises the discussions during the Workshop, and in Section 8 we outline the corresponding Community road-map.

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Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map

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“…In addition to a potential density enhancement, the scalars bound in such objects are colder (have lower velocity dispersion) than the background DM, which implies a longer coherence time which can be exploited in experimental searches. The existence of such objects can be probed by atomic and optical precision measurements on Earth [59,94] or in space [114], and also by experiments looking for ALP DM as discussed in [115].…”

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“…Such an oscillation signal would be detectable with atomic clocks for a large range of DM masses (m 10 −13 eV) and interaction strengths. Clock DM searches are naturally broadband, with mass range depending on the total measurement time and specifics of the clock operation protocols (see [114] for details).…”

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“…Recent atomic clocks placed in space [608], including NASA's deep space atomic clock (DSAC) [609] and other space clocks, provide new opportunities for UDM searches, especially if coupled with future missions similar to the Parker Solar Probe [610]. Space-based quantum sensors, including atomic, molecular, and nuclear clocks, can probe unexplored parameter space of solar-bound UDM [94,115], covering theoretical relaxion targets motivated by naturalness and Higgs mixing [114].…”

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New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter

Antypas¹,

Banerjee²,

Bartram³

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The last decade has seen unprecedented effort in dark matter model building at all mass scales coupled with the design of numerous new detection strategies. Transformative advances in quantum technologies have led to a plethora of new high-precision quantum sensors and dark matter detection strategies for ultralight (< 10 eV) bosonic dark matter that can be described by an oscillating classical, largely coherent field. This white paper focuses on searches for wavelike scalar and vector dark matter candidates.

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“…It is possible that some local over-density of ultralight dark matter could be bound to the Sun. A clock-comparison satellite mission with two clocks onboard sent to the inner reaches of the solar system was proposed in [33] to search for the dark matter halo bound to the Sun, probe natural relaxion 2 parameter space, and look for the spatial variation of the fundamental constants associated with a change in the gravitation potential.…”

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Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map

Alonso

Alpigiani

Altschul

et al. 2022

EPJ Quantum Technol.

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We summarise the discussions at a virtual Community Workshop on Cold Atoms in Space concerning the status of cold atom technologies, the prospective scientific and societal opportunities offered by their deployment in space, and the developments needed before cold atoms could be operated in space. The cold atom technologies discussed include atomic clocks, quantum gravimeters and accelerometers, and atom interferometers. Prospective applications include metrology, geodesy and measurement of terrestrial mass change due to, e.g., climate change, and fundamental science experiments such as tests of the equivalence principle, searches for dark matter, measurements of gravitational waves and tests of quantum mechanics. We review the current status of cold atom technologies and outline the requirements for their space qualification, including the development paths and the corresponding technical milestones, and identifying possible pathfinder missions to pave the way for missions to exploit the full potential of cold atoms in space. Finally, we present a first draft of a possible road-map for achieving these goals, that we propose for discussion by the interested cold atom, Earth Observation, fundamental physics and other prospective scientific user communities, together with the European Space Agency (ESA) and national space and research funding agencies.

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SpaceQ -- Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter with Space Quantum Sensors

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Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map

Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map

New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter

Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map

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