Upper limits to submillimetre-range forces from extra space-time dimensions

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6926, 2003, Pages 922-925

  Long, Joshua C ^a,b   Chan, Hilton W ^a,c   Churnside, Allison B ^a   Gulbis, Eric A ^a   Varney, Michael C M ^a   Price, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; OSCILLATIONS;

SPACE-TIME DIMENSIONS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

GRAVITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FORCE; GRAVITY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; THEORY; TIME;

EID: 0037468178     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01432     Document Type: Article

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