Geophysical test of the universality of free-fall

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2008-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/0811.3926v1

Phys.Rev.D74:027101,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.027101

We point out that the universality of free-fall can be tested by observing surface-gravity changes of the Earth. The Earth's inner core is weakly coupled to the rest part of the Earth by mainly gravitational forces. If there were a violation of the universality of free-fall, because of their different chemical compositions and/or of different mass fractions of binding energies, the inner core and the rest part of the Earth would fall at different rates towards the Sun and other sources of gravitational fields. The differential acceleration could be observed as surface-gravity effects. By assuming a simple Earth model, we discuss the expected surface-gravity effects of violations of the universality and experiments to search for such effects by using superconducting gravimeters. It is shown that the universality can be tested to a level of 10$^{-9}$ using currently operating superconducting gravimeters. Some improvements can be expected from combinations of global measurements and applications of advanced data analyses.

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