Equivalence Principle Tests at the University of Washington

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Apr 2005

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American Physical Society, APS April Meeting, April 16-19, 2005, abstract #X10.001

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We are using a rotating torsion balance to test the equivalence principle for Yukawa ranges from 1 m to . A sensitive torsion balance is mounted on a turntable rotating with constant angular velocity. On the torsion pendulum beryllium and titanium test bodies are installed in a composition dipole configuration. A violation of the equivalence principle would yield to a differential acceleration of the two materials towards a source mass. In a three months long data run, we measured this acceleration with a sensitivity of 3 x10-15 m /s^2. We analyzed the differential acceleration data for a variety of sources such as local topological features (a hill), the Earth, the Sun or the center of our galaxy. Since 25% of the differential acceleration towards the center of our galaxy is caused by galactic dark matter, it allows us to test the equivalence principle for an ordinary matter falling towards galactic dark matter.

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