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The European Physical Journal C
ISSN: 1434-6044 (printed version)
ISSN: 1434-6052 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 5 Issue 4 (1998) pp 651-664
DOI 10.1007/s100529800987
experimental physics:
Experimental study of the dynamic Newtonian field with a cryogenic gravitational wave antenna
P. Astone (2), M. Bassan (3)(4), R. Bizzarri (1)(2), P. Bonifazi (2)(6), L. Brocco (1)(2), P. Carelli (7)(8), E. Coccia (3)(4), C. Cosmelli (1)(2), A. Degasperis (1)(2), S. Frasca (1)(2), V. Fafone (5), E. Majorana (2), I. Modena (3)(4), G. Modestino (5), A. Moleti (3)(4), G.V. Pallottino (1)(2), G. Pizzella (3)(6), P. Puppo (1)(5), P. Rapagnani (1)(2), F. Ricci (1)(2), R. Terenzi (4)(6), M. Visco (4)(6)
(1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
(2) I.N.F.N., Sezione di Roma 1, Roma, Italy
(3) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
(4) I.N.F.N., Sezione di Roma 2, Roma, Italy
(5) I.N.F.N., Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
(6) C.N.R., Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Roma, Italy
(7) Dipartimento di Energetica, Università de L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
(8) I.N.F.N., Gruppo Collegato de L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Received: 14 June 1998 / Published online: 16 September 1998
Abstract. We present an experiment performed to study the behaviour of the dynamic gravitational interaction at laboratory scale. We used as field generator a mass quadrupole rotating in the range of 460 Hz and we detected the acceleration field with the cryogenic gravitational wave antenna Explorer of the Rome group. We report the measurements of this interaction as a function of the distance between the field source and the detector. An upper limit on the parameters of a Yukawa-like potential, modeling an hypotetic deviation from the Newtonian law of gravity, is derived.
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Online publication: October 19, 1998
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