3 New Upper Limit of Terrestrial Equivalence Principle Test for Rotating Extended Bodies
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Improved terrestrial experiment to test the equivalence principle for rotating extended bodies is presented, and a new upper limit for the violation of the equivalence principle is obtained at the level of 1.6×10, which is limited by the friction of the rotating gyroscope. It means the spin-gravity interaction between the extended bodies has not been observed at this level. Typeset using REVTEX
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تاریخ انتشار 2003