A new experimental baseline for testing the weak equivalence principle at the Bremen drop tower

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2417-2425

  Dittus, H ^a   Mehls, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0035534064     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/18/13/304     Document Type: Article

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