IAP weekly specialised seminars / 7 October 2022

Manuel Rodrigues (Departement de Physique, Instrumentation, Environnement, Espace, Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Palaiseau, France)

The MICROSCOPE mission has recently revealed its latest data. After 16 years of development, 2 years of in orbit measurements and 3 years of data analysis, the science team demonstrates that Einstein theory can still rely on the Weak Equivalence Principle: there is no evidence of a violation of the WEP at 10^-15 level. This awesome accuracy was made possible thanks to a rigorous analysis of potential measurement errors. In the presentation, we will show how this result was achieved and how the pitfalls were solved. Going beyond is a new challenge that the team would like to take.

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