Test of the principle of equivalence by a null gravitational red-shift experiment

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Apr 1983

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Physical Review D - Particles and Fields, 3rd Series (ISSN 0556-2821), vol. 27, April 15, 1983, p. 1705-1714. Research supported

Physics

64

Atomic Clocks, Equivalence, Gravitational Fields, Red Shift, Solar Gravitation, Data Processing, Diurnal Variations, Earth Orbits, Earth Rotation, Frequency Stability, Hydrogen Masers, Oscillators

Scientific paper

A test of the Einstein equivalence principle (EEP) was performed by carrying out a 'null' gravitational red-shift experiment. The experiment compared the rates of a pair of hydrogen maser clocks with those of a set of three superconducting-cavity stabilized oscillator clocks as a function of the solar gravitational potential. If EEP were not valid, the relative rates could vary with potential. During the experiment, the solar potential in the laboratory varied approximately linearly at 3 parts in 10 to the 12th per day because of the earth's orbital motion, and diurnally with an amplitude of 3 parts in 10 to the 13th because of the earth's rotation. An upper limit on the relative frequency variation of 1.7 parts in 100 of the external potential was set. The accuracy was limited by the frequency stability of the clocks and by unmodeled environmental effects. The result is consistent with the EEP at the 2 percent level. The experiment can also be viewed as setting a limit on a possible spatial variation of the fine-structure constant.

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