Differential gravitational coupling between cylindrically-symmetric, concentric test masses and an arbitrary gravitational source: relevance to the STEP experiment

Lockerbie, N.A. and Veryaskin, A.V. and Xu, X. (1993) Differential gravitational coupling between cylindrically-symmetric, concentric test masses and an arbitrary gravitational source: relevance to the STEP experiment. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 10 (11). pp. 2419-2430. ISSN 0264-9381 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/10/11/024)

Abstract

The gravitational interaction between a point mass and a finite, hollow, thick-walled cylinder is calculated, the axial force is derived, and the parametric form of the coupling coefficients k2p is presented. This theory is applied to the test-masses for the Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP) experiment, and an equation is derived for the differential gravitational coupling to these masses which is more than 105 times faster to compute than a Monte-Carlo integration of similar accuracy.

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Lockerbie, N.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-3260

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	17696
  Dates:	Date Event November 1993 Published
  Keywords:	differential gravitational coupling, test masses, gravitational source, STEP experiment, Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
  Subjects:	Science > Physics
  Department:	Faculty of Science > Physics Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences > Pharmaceutical Sciences
  Depositing user:	Strathprints Administrator
  Date deposited:	10 May 2010 13:25
  Last modified:	03 Feb 2023 02:04
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/17696