SEARCH FOR GRAVITY-LIKE FORCES AT SUB-MM SCALE

 

Recent Publications:

 

1.       Improved constraints on non-Newtonian forces at 10 microns, Andrew A. Geraci, Sylvia J. Smullin, David M. Weld, John Chiaverini, and Aharon Kapitulnik, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. (2008), arXiv:0802.2350v1

 

2.       New apparatus for detecting micron-scale deviations from Newtonian gravity, David M. Weld, Jing Xia, Blas Cabrera, and Aharon Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. D 77, 062006 (2008), arXiv:0801.1000v2

 

3.       Feedback Control and Characterization of a Microcantilever Using Optical Radiation Pressure, D. M. Weld, A. Kapitulnik, Applied Physics Letters 89, 164102 (2006), cond-mat/0606394.

 

4.       New Constraints on Yukawa-Type Deviations from Newtonian Gravity at 20  Microns, S.J. Smullin, A.A. Geraci, D.M. Weld, J. Chiaverini, Susan Holmes, and A. Kapitulnik, Phys.Rev. D 72 (2005) 122001; Erratum-ibid. D 72, 129901 (2005), hep-ph/0508204.

 

5.       Measuring Gravity at Small Distances, S.J. Smullin, J. Chiaverini, D.M. Weld, A.A. Geraci, and A. Kapitulnik,  to appear in Proceedings of the XXXVIII Moriond Workshop on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity, Les Arcs, France, March 22-29 (2003).

 

6.       New experimental constraints on non-Newtonian forces below 100 µm, J. Chiaverini, S.J. Smullin, A.A. Geraci, D.M. Weld, and A. Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 151101 (2003), hep-ph/0209325.