Yukawa force spectroscopy to search for violations of Newton’s law of gravity below 1 μm distances

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Schmidt, Helena: Yukawa force spectroscopy to search for violations of Newton’s law of gravity below 1 μm distances. Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, Diss., 2020, 152 S. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/9983

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Gravity is well tested on several length scales, but some unified theories predictdeviations in the region below 1 mm. In this thesis I will present a methodto search for such deviations in the sub-micrometre length scale. Below 1 μm,the electrostatic and the Casimir force are stronger than the gravitationalforce by some magnitudes. To distinguish these forces, I have designed a newforce measurement setup based on the frequency modulation AFM technique.Utilizing a quartz based parallelogram cantilever, it is feasible to measurethese forces with sufficient accuracy for us to set new constraints for possibledeviations of gravity. In this thesis I will present a new method of measuringsuch deviations of gravity, and show the initial results I have obtained using it.This will show that the measurement concept works, but that improvementsare necessary before we can achieve optimum measurement uncertainty.
License of this version: CC BY 3.0 DE
Document Type: DoctoralThesis
Publishing status: publishedVersion
Issue Date: 2020
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