Michael Brown-Hayes, Diego A. R. Dalvit, Francisco D. Mazzitelli, Woo-Joong Kim, Roberto Onofrio
Published 2005-11-02Version 1
We report on a proposal aimed at measuring the Casimir force in a 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.
Comments: 11 pages, 13 figures (.eps format, higher-resolution figures in published version)
Journal: Phys.Rev. A72 (2005) 052102
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