Constraint on intermediate-range gravity from earth-satellite and lunar orbiter measurements, and lunar laser ranging

摘要

In the experimental tests of gravity, there have been considerable interests in the possibility of intermediate-range gravity. In this paper, we use the earth-satellite measurement of earth gravity, the lunar orbiter measurement of lunar gravity, and lunar laser ranging measurement to constrain the intermediate-range gravity from lambda = 1.2 x 10(7) m- 3.8 x 10(8) m. The limits for this range are alpha = 10(-8)-5 x 10(-8), which improve previous limits by about one order of magnitude in the range lambda = 1.2 x 10(7) m-3.8 x 10(8) m.