Laboratory Tests of Gravity: an extremely-low-energy frontier of particle physics

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

Tests of Einstein's equivalence principle (EP) and Newton's inverse-square law (ISL) address basic issues raised by modern attempts to unify gravity with the other fundamental interactions. I will discuss the principles of, the results from, and some implications of torsion-balance tests of the EP and ISL. The high sensitivity of the EP tests provides strong constraints on the ``gravitational'' properties of anti-matter and dark matter, while the ISL tests limit the possible sizes of extra dimensions and the strengths of new meV-scale physics.

Authors

  • Eric Adelberger

    University of Washington, Seattle WA