Limits on composition-dependent interactions using a laboratory source: is there a "fifth force" coupled to isospin?
Abstract
Previous "fifth-force" experiments searched for differential acceleration of test bodies placed near terrestrial sources. Because these sources have N≈Z the results had little sensitivity to forces coupled to B-2L = N-Z. The authors searched for such forces by placing a 1 ton Pb source close to a Be/Al torsion balance. No evidence for an isospin-coupled force was found.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.609
- Bibcode:
- 1989PhRvL..62..609S
- Keywords:
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- Acceleration (Physics);
- Composition (Property);
- Field Theory (Physics);
- Force;
- Lead (Metal);
- Magnetic Moments;
- Mass Balance;
- Mechanical Measurement;
- Pendulums;
- Physics (General);
- Gravitation Theory: Tests;
- 04.90.+e;
- 14.80.Pb;
- Other topics in general relativity and gravitation