Experimental assessment of the speed of light perturbation in free-fall absolute gravimeters

Metrologia

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 635-645

  Baumann, H ^a   Pythoud, F ^a   Blas, D ^b   Sibiryakov, S ^b,c,d   Eichenberger, A ^a   Klingele E E ^e  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^e Gravity Consulting   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

absolute gravimeters; gravimetry; SI; speed of light perturbation; watt balance

Indexed keywords

GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT VELOCITY; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; SILICON;

ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER; ABSOLUTE GRAVITY; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FALLING BODIES; FINITE SPEED OF PROPAGATION; FREE FALL; MICHELSON-TYPE INTERFEROMETERS; WATT BALANCE;

GRAVIMETERS;

EID: 84945184949     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/52/5/635     Document Type: Article

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