MAGIS-100: Towards atom interferometry over a 100m baseline

ORAL

Abstract

The upcoming MAGIS-100 experiment is under construction in the MINOS access shaft at Fermilab. We plan to exploit its 100m baseline to search for ultralight dark matter candidates; it will also be a pathfinder for future gravitational wave detectors operating in the mid-band. This frequency range, from 10 mHz to 3 Hz, spans the gap in sensitivity between LIGO and LISA, and is the optimal frequency range for sky localization to support multimessenger astronomy. Furthermore, MAGIS-100 aims to search for ultralight dark matter with both scalar and vector couplings over a mass range spanning several decades. Its long baseline enables tests of macroscopic quantum mechanics at new scales, including wavepacket separation over a meter and with an interferometer duration up to 9 seconds. We will describe the design of the detector, focusing on how it will enable the pursuit of these science signals.

*This project is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant GBMF7945. This work is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, QuantiSED Intitiative. Benjamin Garber is supported by the Department of Defense (DoD) through the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program.

Presenters

  • Ben E Garber

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University

Authors

  • Ben E Garber

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University
  • Mahiro Abe

    • Stanford University
  • Sam P Carman

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University
  • Yijun Jiang

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University
  • Megan Nantel

    • Stanford University
  • Jan Rudolph

    • Stanford University
  • Hunter Swan

    • Stanford University
  • Thomas Wilkason

    • Stanford University
  • Jason Hogan

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University