Ten Years of the Fifth Force
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The suggestion in 1986 of a possible gravity-like ``fifth" fundamental force renewed interest in the question of whether new macroscopic forces are present in nature. Such forces are predicted in many theories which unify gravity with the other known forces, and their presence can be detected by searching for apparent deviations from the predictions of Newtonian gravity. We review the phenomenology behind searches for a ``fifth force", and present a summary of the existing experimental constraints.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9606249,
title = {Ten Years of the Fifth Force},
author = {Ephraim Fischbach and Carrick Talmadge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9606249},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages, two figures, requires epsf format; to appear in the Moriond Proceedings