Towards a precision measurement of the Casimir force in a cylinder-plane geometry

Journal Article · Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2005 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.72.0· OSTI ID:20786438

Brown-Hayes, M; Kim, W J ^[1]; Dalvit, D A. R. ^[2]; Mazzitelli, F D ^[3]; Onofrio, R ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, 6127 Wilder Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 (United States)
2. Theoretical Division, MS B213, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
3. Departamento de Fisica, J.J. Giambiagi, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellion 1, 1428 Buenos Aires (Argentina)

We report on a proposal aimed at measuring the Casimir force in the cylinder-plane configuration. The Casimir force is evaluated including corrections due to finite parallelism, conductivity, and temperature. The range of validity of the proximity force approximation is also discussed. An apparatus to test the feasibility of a precision measurement in this configuration has been developed, and we describe both a procedure to control the parallelism and the results of the electrostatic calibration. Finally we discuss the possibility of measuring the thermal contribution to the Casimir force and deviations from the proximity force approximation, both of which are expected at relatively large distances.

• OSTI ID: 20786438
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 72, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.052102; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ACCURACY
APPROXIMATIONS
CALIBRATION
CASIMIR EFFECT
CONTROL
CORRECTIONS
DISTANCE
GEOMETRY