Resource Letter PTG-1: Precision Tests of Gravity

Abstract

This resource letter provides an introduction to some of the main current topics in experimental tests of general relativity as well as to some of the historical literature. It is intended to serve as a guide to the field for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, both theoretical and experimental, and for workers in other fields of physics who wish learn about experimental gravity. The topics covered include alternative theories of gravity, tests of the principle of equivalence, solar-system and binary-pulsar tests, searches for new physics in gravitational arenas, and tests of gravity in new regimes, involving astrophysics and gravitational radiation.

9 pages; submitted to American Journal of Physics

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• Fundamental quantum optics experiments conceivable with satellites -- reaching relativistic distances and velocities
• The 1919 measurement of the deflection of light
• Photon polarization and geometric phase in general relativity
• Polarization rotation, reference frames and Mach's principle
• Gravitational atoms in the braneworld scenario
• Stability in quadratic torsion theories
• Fundamental Physics and Cosmology with TianQin
• Paczynski-Wiita-like potential for any static spherical black hole in metric theories of gravity
• Schwinger's Approach to Einstein's Gravity and Beyond