MAGIA

Collaboration:

- Italy: Firenze Univ and INFN and LENS
- Germany: Peters Universität Konstanz
- USA: Yale University

Laboratory: European Lab. for Non-Linear Spectroscopy - LENS (Firenze)

National Responsible: G. Tino (Firenze)

1. Goal of the experiment

Measurement of the Gravitational Constant G with a new method based on atomic interferometry .

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Activities during 2001

The proposal of this new experiment has been approved for initiating the activity in the Year 2002

Milestones 2002

The activity in the Year 2002 is based on the setup of the different components of the experimental apparatus and on their initial characterization, according to the following milestones:

Construction of the vacuum system and of laser source setup | 1-04-2002
Construction of the system with two lasers phase locked and amplified | 1-08-2002
Preliminary characterization of the atomic interferometer | 1-12-2002

3. INFN contribution in terms of manpower and financial support.

Manpower: 6 physicists (3.6 FTE), 2 technicians (0.6 FTE)

Budget for the Year 2002: 51 kEuro

4. Number of publications in refereed journals:

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5. Conference talks:

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6. Number of undergraduate and doctoral thesis.

- 1 laurea thesis in progress
- 1 doctoral thesis in progress

7. Leadership role and major responsibilities in the experiment.

- M. Tino, spokesperson

8. Innovative instruments

9. Competing experiments.

10. International Committee which has reviewed the experiment