https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4886-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Recent breakthrough and outlook in constraining the non-Newtonian gravity and axion-like particles from Casimir physics
1
Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, 196140, Russia
2
Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, 195251, Russia
* e-mail: g.klimchitskaya@gmail.com
Received:
12
April
2017
Accepted:
5
May
2017
Published online:
17
May
2017
The strongest constraints on the Yukawa-type corrections to Newton’s gravitational law and on the coupling constants of axion-like particles to nucleons, following from recently performed experiments of Casimir physics, are presented. Specifically, the constraints obtained from measurements of the lateral and normal Casimir forces between sinusoidally corrugated surfaces, and from the isoelectronic experiment are considered, and the ranges of their greatest strength are refined. Minor modifications in the experimental setups are proposed which allow for strengthening the resultant constraints up to an order of magnitude. The comparison with some weaker constraints derived in the Casimir regime is also made.
© The Author(s), 2017
