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Measuring gravitational interactions on sub-100-$\mu$m length scales offers a window into physics beyond the Standard Model. However, short-range gravity experiments are limited by the ability to position sufficiently massive objects to…

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We investigate the ability to constrain oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum using current and future cosmic microwave background observations. In particular, we study the observability of an oscillation arising from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Takemi Okamoto , Eugene A. Lim

A novel method is presented for measuring impulsive forces generated by devices which are fed with medium power microwave signals. The forces are measured with a torsion balance or weighing scale, as usual, but the microwave signal is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-19 Chris P. Duif

We report on a search for non-Newtonian forces that couple to mass, with a characteristic scale of ${\sim}10~\mu$m, using an optically levitated microsphere as a precision force sensor. A silica microsphere trapped in an upward-propagating,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-27 Charles P. Blakemore , Alexander Fieguth , Akio Kawasaki , Nadav Priel , Denzal Martin , Alexander D. Rider , Qidong Wang , Giorgio Gratta

The recent ideas that the gravitational and gauge interactions become united at the weak scale lead to Yukawa-type corrections to the Newtonian gravitational law at small distances. We briefly summarize the best constraints on these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Mostepanenko , M. Novello

The Casimir force is calculated in the configuration of a spherical lens and a disc of finite radius covered by $Cu$ and $Au$ thin layers which was used in a recent experiment. The correction to the Casimir force due to finiteness of the…

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Recently, quantum states of ultra-cold neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field have been observed for the first time. From the fact that they are consistent with Newtonian gravity on the 10 %-level, analytical limits on alpha and lambda…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Westphal , Hartmut Abele , Stefan Baessler

We report the first isoelectronic differential force measurements between a Au-coated probe and two Au-coated films, made out of Au and Ge. These measurements, performed at submicron separations using soft microelectromechanical torsional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. S. Decca , D. Lopez , H. B. Chan , E. Fischbach , D. E. Krause , C. Jamell

We report an experimental test of non-Newtonian gravitational forces at mi- crometer range. To experimentally subtract off the Casimir force and the electrostatic force background, differential force measurements were performed by sensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Pengshun Luo , Jianbo Wang , Shengguo Guan , Wenjie Wu , Zhaoyang Tian , Shanqing Yang , Chenggang Shao , Jun Luo

A recent analysis by one of the authors\cite{Perivolaropoulos:2016ucs} has indicated the presence of a $2\sigma$ signal of spatially oscillating new force residuals in the torsion balance data of the Washington experiment. We extend that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Ioannis Antoniou , Leandros Perivolaropoulos

Measurements of the Casimir force are used to obtain stronger constraints on the parameters of hypothetical interactions predicted in different unification schemes beyond the Standard Model. We review new strong constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 V. M. Mostepanenko , V. B. Bezerra , G. L. Klimchitskaya , C. Romero

In this paper, we present an upper limit of $\Omega_{\rm GW}<1.2\times 10^{8}$ on an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background integrated over a year in the frequency range 0.05 Hz - 1 Hz, which improves current upper limits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Michael Coughlin , Jan Harms

In this work, we present the first experimental upper limits on the presence of stochastic ultra-high-frequency gravitational waves. We exclude gravitational waves in the frequency bands from $(2.7 - 14)\times10^{14}~$Hz and $(5 -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-14 Aldo Ejlli , Damian Ejlli , Adrian Mike Cruise , Giampaolo Pisano , Hartmut Grote

We obtain constraints on the Yukawa-type corrections to Newton's gravitational law and on the coupling constant of axionlike particles to nucleons following from the experiment on measuring the Casimir force between an Au-coated microsphere…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-05 G. L. Klimchitskaya , P. Kuusk , V. M. Mostepanenko

We discuss possibility to obtain stronger constraints on non-Newtonian gravity from measuring the gradient of the Casimir force between a cylinder and a plate. Exact analytical expression for the Yukawa-type force in a cylinder-plate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 G. L. Klimchitskaya , C. Romero

We report new limits on the kinetic mixing strength of the dark photon spanning the mass range 0.21 -- 1.24 $\mu$eV corresponding to a frequency span of 50 -- 300 MHz. The Dark E-Field Radio experiment is a wide-band search for dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-03 Joseph Levine , Benjamin Godfrey , J. Anthony Tyson , S. Mani Tripathi , Daniel Polin , Amin Aminaei , Brian H. Kolner , Paul Stucky

We propose a new method to search for hypothetical scalar particles that have feeble interactions with Standard-Model particles. In the presence of massive bodies, these interactions produce a non-zero Yukawa-type scalar-field magnitude.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 N. Leefer , A. Gerhardus , D. Budker , V. V. Flambaum , Y. V. Stadnik

We have searched for large deviations from Newtonian gravity by means of a microcantilever-based Cavendish-style experiment. Our data eliminate from consideration mechanisms of deviation that posit strengths ~10^4 times Newtonian gravity at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Chiaverini , S. J. Smullin , A. A. Geraci , D. M. Weld , A. Kapitulnik

We present the first upper limit on gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds at an unexplored frequency of 0.2 Hz using a torsion-bar antenna (TOBA). A TOBA was proposed to search for low-frequency GWs. We have developed a small-scaled TOBA and…