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Chin. Phys. B, 2017, Vol. 26(8): 080401    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/8/080401
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Effect of gravity gradient in weak equivalence principle test

Jia-Hao Xu(徐家豪)1, Cheng-Gang Shao(邵成刚)2, Jie Luo(罗杰)1, Qi Liu(刘祺)2, Lin Zhu(邾琳)2, Hui-Hui Zhao(赵慧慧)2
1 School of Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Information, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China;
2 Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement (Ministry of Education), School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Abstract  

A high accuracy test of the weak equivalence principle (WEP) is of great scientific significance no matter whether its result is positive. We analyze the gravity gradient effect which is a main systematic error source in the test of WEP. The result shows that the uncompensated gravity gradient effect from the coupling term of the dominated gravity gradient multipole moment component q21 and the relative multipole field component Q21 contributes to an uncertainty of 1×10-11 on the Eötvös parameter. We make a Q21 compensation to reduce the effect by about 20 times, and the limit of the test precision due to this coupling is improved to a level of a part in 1013.

Keywords:  weak equivalence principle test      gravity gradient effect      test precision      gravity gradient compensation  
Received:  02 March 2017      Revised:  20 April 2017      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  04.80.Cc (Experimental tests of gravitational theories)  
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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11575160 and 11605065).

Corresponding Authors:  Jie Luo, Qi Liu     E-mail:  luojiethanks@126.com;louis_liuqi@hust.edu.com
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Jia-Hao Xu(徐家豪), Cheng-Gang Shao(邵成刚), Jie Luo(罗杰), Qi Liu(刘祺), Lin Zhu(邾琳), Hui-Hui Zhao(赵慧慧) Effect of gravity gradient in weak equivalence principle test 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 080401

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