Testing the universality of free fall with rubidium and ytterbium in a very large baseline atom interferometer

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Hartwig, J.; Abend, Sven; Schubert, Christian; Schlippert, Dennis; Ahlers, H. et al.: Testing the universality of free fall with rubidium and ytterbium in a very large baseline atom interferometer. In: New Journal of Physics 17 (2015), 35011. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/3/035011

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We propose a very long baseline atom interferometer test of Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) with ytterbium and rubidium extending over 10m of free fall. In view of existing parametrizations of EEP violations, this choice of test masses significantly broadens the scope of atom interferometric EEP tests with respect to other performed or proposed tests by comparing two elements with high atomic numbfers. In the first step, our experimental scheme will allow us to reach an accuracy in the Eotvos ratio of 7 . 10(-13). This achievement will constrain violation scenarios beyond our present knowledge and will represent an important milestone for exploring a variety of schemes for further improvements of the tests as outlined in the paper. We will discuss the technical realisation in the new infrastructure of the Hanover Institute of Technology (HITec) and give a short overview of the requirements needed to reach this accuracy. The experiment will demonstrate a variety of techniques, which will be employed in future tests of EEP, high-accuracy gravimetry and gravity gradiometry. It includes operation of a force-sensitive atom interferometer with an alkaline earth-like element in free fall, beam splitting over macroscopic distances and novel source concepts.
License of this version: CC BY 3.0 Unported
Document Type: Article
Publishing status: publishedVersion
Issue Date: 2015-03-20
Appears in Collections:Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik

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