Sensitive gravity-gradiometry with atom interferometry: progress towards an improved determination of the gravitational constant

Details Sensitive gravity-gradiometry with atom interferometry: progress towards an improved determination of the gravitational constant Sensitive gravity-gradiometry with atom interferometry: progress towards an improved determination of the gravitational constant

2010-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/1002.3549v1

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Atomic Physics

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We here present a high sensitivity gravity-gradiometer based on atom interferometry. In our apparatus, two clouds of laser-cooled rubidium atoms are launched in fountain configuration and interrogated by a Raman interferometry sequence to probe the gradient of gravity field. We recently implemented a high-flux atomic source and a newly designed Raman lasers system in the instrument set-up. We discuss the applications towards a precise determination of the Newtonian gravitational constant G. The long-term stability of the instrument and the signal-to-noise ratio demonstrated here open interesting perspectives for pushing the measurement precision below the 100 ppm level.

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