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

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 Archimede...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2014-09
Main Authors: Calloni, Enrico, Caprara, S, De Laurentis, Martina, Esposito, Giampiero, Grilli, M, Majorana, Ettore, Pepe, G P, Petrarca, S, Puppo, P, Ricci, F, Rosa, Luigi, Rovelli, Carlo, Ruggi, P, Saini, N L, Stornaiolo, Cosimo, Tafuri, Francesco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Earth gravitation
Experiments
Feasibility studies
Force measurement
Gravitational fields
Project feasibility
Quantum theory
Variations
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2331-8422