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Tests of new physics from precise measurements of the Casimir pressure between two gold-coated plates

R. S. Decca, D. López, E. Fischbach, G. L. Klimchitskaya, D. E. Krause, V. M. Mostepanenko

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0703290

Abstract

A micromechanical torsion oscillator has been used to strengthen the limits on new Yukawa forces by determining the Casimir pressure between two gold-coated plates. By significantly reducing the random errors and obtaining the electronic parameters of the gold coatings, we were able to conclusively exclude the predictions of large thermal effects below 1 μm and strengthen the constraints on Yukawa corrections to Newtonian gravity in the interaction range from 29.5 nm to 86 nm.

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