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Gravitational shielding and the equivalence principle

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It is a review of recent experiments for the detection of gravitational shielding. A link of these studies with the experimental tests of the Equivalence Principle (EP) is discussed.

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Savrov, L.A. Gravitational shielding and the equivalence principle. Gravit. Cosmol. 18, 270–278 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0202289312040081

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