TY - JOUR
T1 - Differential gravitational coupling between cylindrically-symmetric, concentric test masses and an arbitrary gravitational source: relevance to the STEP experiment
AU - Lockerbie, N.A.
AU - Veryaskin, A.V.
AU - Xu, X.
PY - 1993/11
Y1 - 1993/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - differential gravitational coupling
KW - test masses
KW - gravitational source
KW - STEP experiment
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/10/11/024
U2 - 10.1088/0264-9381/10/11/024
DO - 10.1088/0264-9381/10/11/024
M3 - Article
SN - 0264-9381
VL - 10
SP - 2419
EP - 2430
JO - Classical and Quantum Gravity
JF - Classical and Quantum Gravity
IS - 11
ER -