Current short-range tests of the gravitational inverse square law
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Current Short–Range Tests of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law
Motivated in large part by the possibility of observing signatures of compact extra dimensions, experimental searches for deviations from Newtonian gravity at short distances have improved in sensitivity by many orders of magnitude in the past five years. We review the essential features of the experiments responsible for the current limits on new effects in the range from a few microns to a fe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Comptes Rendus Physique
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1631-0705
DOI: 10.1016/s1631-0705(03)00042-2