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The Archimedes project: a feasibility study for weighing the vacuum energy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-09-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Archimedes is a feasibility study to a future experiment to ascertain the interaction of vacuum fluctuations with gravity. The future experiment should measure the force that the Earth's gravitational field exerts on a Casimir cavity by using a balance as the small force detector. The Archimedes experiment analyses the important parameters in view of the final measurement and experimentally explores solutions to the most critical problems.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6974,
  title  = {The Archimedes project: a feasibility study for weighing the vacuum energy},
  author = {Enrico Calloni and S Caprara and Martina De Laurentis and Giampiero Esposito and M Grilli and Ettore Majorana and G P Pepe and S Petrarca and P Puppo and F Ricci and Luigi Rosa and Carlo Rovelli and P Ruggi and N L Saini and Cosimo Stornaiolo and Francesco Tafuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6974},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures