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Phys. Rev. D 55, 4532–4536 (1997)

Final results from the WABG tower gravity experiment

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Anestis J. Romaides and Roger W. Sands
Phillips Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts 01731-3010

Ephraim Fischbach and Carrick L. Talmadge
Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1396

Received 15 October 1996; published in the issue dated 15 April 1997

A test of the inverse-square law, conducted on a 610 m television transmitter in Inverness, Mississippi, measured gravity at five elevations on the WABG tower, and compared these data with the Newtonian predictions using potential theory. The largest observed-minus-model discrepancy, at 493 m above ground, was (-33±30) μGal (1 μGal=10-8 m s-2). These data have since been supplemented with additional gravity data taken on the tower at a higher elevation. The results confirm the predictions of Newtonian gravity, with a discrepancy of (32±32) μGal at 568 m. The tower experiments, along with current lake experiments, place very tight constraints on any possible non-Newtonian forces.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.4532
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.4532
PACS:
04.90.+e