Constraint on intermediate-range gravity from earth-satellite and lunar orbiter measurements, and lunar laser ranging
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In the experimental tests of gravity, there have been considerable interests in the possibility of intermediate-range gravity. In this paper, we use the earth-satellite measurement of earth gravity, the lunar orbiter measurement of lunar gravity, and lunar laser ranging measurement to constrain the intermediate-range gravity from λ = 1.2×10m−3.8×10m. The limits for this range are α = 10−5×10, which improve previous limits by about one order of magnitude in the range λ = 1.2×10m−3.8×10m.
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