The Archimedes project: a feasibility study for weighing the vacuum energy

Authors :: Calloni, Enrico
Caprara, S
De Laurentis, Martina
Esposito, Giampiero
Grilli, M
Majorana, Ettore
Pepe, G P
Petrarca, S
Puppo, P
Ricci, F
Rosa, Luigi
Rovelli, Carlo
Ruggi, P
Saini, N L
Stornaiolo, Cosimo
Tafuri, Francesco
Publication Year :: 2014
Abstract: Archimedes is a feasibility study to a future experiment to ascertain the interaction of vacuum fluctuations with gravity. The future experiment should measure the force that the Earth's gravitational field exerts on a Casimir cavity by using a balance as the small force detector. The Archimedes experiment analyses the important parameters in view of the final measurement and experimentally explores solutions to the most critical problems.<br />Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures