Experimental test of the law of gravitation at small distances
- 15 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 36 (8) , 2321-2326
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.36.2321
Abstract
The law of gravitation has been tested at distances of less than 1 cm using a dynamic field method. For an additional Yukawa term with a range of λ=7.1 mm, a relative coupling constant to the Newtonian potential, α=(0.1±1.1)×, was obtained.
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