Towards an atom interferometric determination of the Newtonian gravitational constant

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 318, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 184-191

  Fattori, M ^a   Lamporesi, G ^a   Petelski, T ^a   Stuhler, J ^a   Tino, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; GRAVITATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER COOLING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ATOM CLOUD; DOUBLE DIFFERENTIAL; GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL; INTERFEROMETRIC DETERMINATION; LASER-COOLED ATOMS; NEWTONIANS; SOURCE MASS;

ATOM LASERS;

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; TECHNIQUE; VACUUM;

EID: 0242267578     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2003.07.011     Document Type: Article

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