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

E Calloni, S Caprara, M De Laurentis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
E Calloni, S Caprara, M De Laurentis, G Esposito, M Grilli, E Majorana, GP Pepe, S Petrarca…
arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6974, 2014arxiv.org
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.
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.
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