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Comparison of 3 absolute gravimeters based on different methods for the e-MASS project

Atomic Physics 2011-06-27 v2 Geophysics

Abstract

We report on the comparison between three absolute gravimeters that took place in April 2010 at Laboratoire National de M\'etrologie et d'Essais. The three instruments (FG5#209 from METAS, Switzerland, IMGC-02 from INRIM, Italy, and CAG from LNE-SYRTE, France) rely on different methods: optical and atomic interferometry. We discuss their differences as well as their similarities. We compare their measurements of the gravitational acceleration in 4 points of the same pillar, in the perspective of an absolute determination of g for a watt balance experiment

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@article{arxiv.1008.2884,
  title  = {Comparison of 3 absolute gravimeters based on different methods for the e-MASS project},
  author = {A. Louchet-Chauvet and S. Merlet and Q. Bodart and A. Landragin and F. Pereira Dos Santos and H. Baumann and G. D'Agostino and C. Origlia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2884},
  year   = {2011}
}
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