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New tests of Einstein's equivalence principle and Newton's inverse-square law

E G Adelberger

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This paper describes recent experimental work by the University of Washington Eöt-Wash group on two different topics: a test of the strong equivalence principle and a search for sub-millimetre scale deviations of the Newtonian 1/r2 law. Our strong equivalence principle test was motivated by the resurgence of interest in `gravitational' scalar fields, which typically lead to violation of the equivalence principle for gravitational self-energy. Our sub-millimetre experiment was motivated by predictions of fundamentally new effects from `large' extra dimensions and from the dilaton and moduli scalar particles of string theory.


PACS

04.80.Cc Experimental tests of gravitational theories

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

MSC

83C40 Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 13 (7 July 2001)

Received 5 January 2001



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