New Experimental Limits on Macroscopic Forces Below 100 Microns

Details New Experimental Limits on Macroscopic Forces Below 100 Microns New Experimental Limits on Macroscopic Forces Below 100 Microns

2002-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0210004v3

Letter version published in Nature 421, 922-925 (2003)

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

25 Pages, 7 Figures: Minor Corrections

Scientific paper

Results of an experimental search for new macroscopic forces with Yukawa range between 5 and 500 microns are presented. The experiment uses 1 kHz mechanical oscillators as test masses with a stiff conducting shield between them to suppress backgrounds. No signal is observed above the instrumental thermal noise after 22 hours of integration time. These results provide the strongest limits to date between 10 and 100 microns, improve on previous limits by as much as three orders of magnitude, and rule out half of the remaining parameter space for predictions of string-inspired models with low-energy supersymmetry breaking. New forces of four times gravitational strength or greater are excluded at the 95% confidence level for interaction ranges between 200 and 500 microns.

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