2020
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.101101
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New Test of the Gravitational 1/r2 Law at Separations down to 52μm

Abstract: We tested the gravitational 1/r 2 law using a stationary torsion-balance detector and a rotating attractor containing test bodies with both 18-fold and 120-fold azimuthal symmetries that simultaneously tests the 1/r 2 law at two different length scales. We took data at detector-attractor separations between 52 µm and 3.0 mm. Newtonian gravity gave an excellent fit to our data, limiting with 95% confidence any gravitational-strength Yukawa interactions to ranges < 38.6 µm.

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“…(6) Formidable precision tests of WEP and the r dependence of forces between matter aggregates are being pursued in recent years. They reached the centimeter to micron scale of distances from different approaches like torsion balance [26,27], optical levitation [28] and atom interferometry [29,30]. When interpreted in terms of a new "fifth force" Yukawa interaction, the present upper limit to its coupling relative to gravity goes [27] from 1 to 10 6 for a corresponding range from 40 to 1 micron.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…(6) Formidable precision tests of WEP and the r dependence of forces between matter aggregates are being pursued in recent years. They reached the centimeter to micron scale of distances from different approaches like torsion balance [26,27], optical levitation [28] and atom interferometry [29,30]. When interpreted in terms of a new "fifth force" Yukawa interaction, the present upper limit to its coupling relative to gravity goes [27] from 1 to 10 6 for a corresponding range from 40 to 1 micron.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…They reached the centimeter to micron scale of distances from different approaches like torsion balance [26,27], optical levitation [28] and atom interferometry [29,30]. When interpreted in terms of a new "fifth force" Yukawa interaction, the present upper limit to its coupling relative to gravity goes [27] from 1 to 10 6 for a corresponding range from 40 to 1 micron. Following these guiding concepts, we have developed [31] the theory of the long-range force mediated by two neutrinos including for the first time all ingredients of neutrino physics relevant to the region of distances near the range of the interaction, with masses, mixing and the Dirac/ Majorana distinction.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…These and other theories involve extra time [139] and space [140] dimensions and new scalar and vector mediators such the axion [141], dilaton [142], dark photon and Z [143], all of which can alter the typical 1/r scaling of the gravitational potential and break the weak equivalence principle. Torsion balance experiments have excluded a region in the |α| − λ parameter space of the Yukawa-type parametrisation of deviations from the 1/r potential [144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151][152]. Other experiments probing macroscopic distances have used optical levitation [153,154] and atom interferometry [155].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Other experimental parameters are reported in SI units for clarity. While the neutron coupling to light mediators g n is strongly constrained by fifth-force searches and equivalence principle tests [48,49], g d is considerably less constrained. Couplings for which g d ≫ g n are typically required to produce observable signals.…”
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confidence: 99%