Search For Gravitational Strength Forces Below 1 cm

新的长程力的理论预测已经在许多情况下出现。 引力强度效应在试图将引力与其他力统一起来的现代理论中起着特别重要的作用。 最近，季莫普洛斯和朱迪斯认为，弦理论的模量可能会产生大量新的长程力，其强度大致为引力，范围在实验可及的范围内。 研究人员将着手寻找低于1厘米的新引力强度。 该实验将对50微米至1厘米范围内的Yukawa引力强度敏感，并将对范围小至10微米的更强力设定新的限制。 几乎所有剩余的参数空间的模力与轻夸克和胶子的预测Dimopoulos和Giudice将被探索。

Theoretical predictions of new long-range forces have arisen in many contexts. Gravitational strength effects play an especially important role in modern theories which attempt to unify gravity with the other forces. Most recently, Dimopoulos and Giudice and have argued that the moduli of string theory may give rise to a large number of new long- ranges forces of roughly gravitational strength, with ranges within the experimentally accessible region. The investigators will undertake a search for new gravitational strength forces below 1 cm. The experiment will be sensitive to a Yukawa force of gravitational strength with a range between 50 micro meters and 1 cm, and it will set new limits on stronger forces with ranges as small as 10 micro meters. Almost all of the remaining parameter space for the moduli forces associated with the light quarks and the gluon as predicted by Dimopoulos and Giudice will be explored.