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CASIMIR EFFECT AS A TEST FOR THERMAL CORRECTIONS AND HYPOTHETICAL LONG-RANGE INTERACTIONS

G. L. KLIMCHITSKAYA

North-West Technical University, Millionnaya St. 5, St. Petersburg, 191065, Russia

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R. S. DECCA

Department of Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA

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E. FISCHBACH

Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA

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D. E. KRAUSE

Physics Department, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933, USA

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D. LÓPEZ

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA

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V. M. MOSTEPANENKO

Noncommercial Partnership "Scientific Instruments", Tverskaya St. 11, Moscow, 103905, Russia

A. Friedmann Laboratory, St. Petersburg, Russia

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X05024419Cited by:30 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We have performed a precise experimental determination of the Casimir pressure between two gold-coated parallel plates by means of a micromachined oscillator. In contrast to all previous experiments on the Casimir effect, where a small relative error (varying from 1% to 15%) was achieved only at the shortest separation, our smallest experimental error (~ 0.5%) is achieved over a wide separation range from 170 nm to 300 nm at 95% confidence. We have formulated a rigorous metrological procedure for the comparison of experiment and theory without resorting to the previously used root-mean-square deviation, which has been criticized in the literature. This enables us to discriminate among different competing theories of the thermal Casimir force, and to resolve a thermodynamic puzzle arising from the application of Lifshitz theory to real metals. Our results lead to a more rigorous approach for obtaining constraints on hypothetical long-range interactions predicted by extra-dimensional physics and other extensions of the Standard Model. In particular, the constraints on non-Newtonian gravity are strengthened by up to a factor of 20 in a wide interaction range at 95% confidence.

This paper is the combined presentation of two talks given by G. L. Klimchitskaya and by V. M. Mostepanenko.

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