Jul 17 – 22, 2022
Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
America/Toronto timezone

AION: An atom interferometer observatory and network

Jul 21, 2022, 5:00 PM
1h 30m
Hart House (Hart House)

Hart House

Hart House

7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Poster presentation Precision measurement and tests of fundamental physics Poster session

Description

Atom interferometers are sensitive to the signatures of gravitational waves, ultra-light dark matter and other fundamental physics phenomena. The development of this new class of quantum detector will complement traditional detection methods and extend measurement capabilities.

The Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network (AION) [1] is a planned series of atom interferometers operating on the strontium clock transition in a gradiometer configuration. The baseline of terrestrial devices, corresponding to the separation between interferometers in the differential measurement, will increase from 10 m to 1 km. Current work focusses on developing the cold atom technologies to support the detection goals, including transport and cooling of the atom clouds, state preparation and large momentum transfer techniques, and design of the 10 m device. This poster outlines the scientific goals, experimental implementation and recent progress of the AION detector with a focus on the work on atom transport and cooling being carried out at the University of Cambridge.

This poster is presented on behalf of the AION consortium.

[1] L. Badurina et al. “AION: An Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 5, 011 (2020).

Presenter name Tiffany Harte
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Primary authors

Tiffany Harte (University of Cambridge) Chung Chuan Hsu (University of Cambridge) Zach Eyler (University of Cambridge) Brian Bostwick (University of Cambridge) Dr Kimberly Tkalčec (University of Cambridge) Prof. Ulrich Schneider (University of Cambridge)

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