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Short-range fundamental forces

We consider theoretical motivations to search for extra short-range fundamental forces as well as experiments constraining their parameters. The forces could be of two types: 1) spin-independent forces, 2) spin-dependent axion-like forces. Differe nt experimental techniques are sensitive in respecti...

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Autores principales: Antoniadis, I, Baessler, S, Buchner, M, Fedorov, V V, Hoedl, S, Lambrecht, A, Nesvizhevsky, V V, Pignol, G, Protasov, K V, Reynaud, S, Sobolev, Yu
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2011.05.004
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1447147
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Sumario:We consider theoretical motivations to search for extra short-range fundamental forces as well as experiments constraining their parameters. The forces could be of two types: 1) spin-independent forces, 2) spin-dependent axion-like forces. Differe nt experimental techniques are sensitive in respective ranges of characteristic distances. The techniques include measurements of gravity at short distances, searches for extra interactions on top of the Casimir force, precision atomic and neutron experim ents. We focus on neutron constraints, thus the range of characteristic distances considered here corresponds to the range accessible for neutron experiments.