Experimental and observational tests of antigravity

TL;DR

This paper explores the hypothesis that antimatter causes repulsive gravity, potentially explaining dark energy, dark matter, and CP violation, supported by cosmological tests and upcoming experiments at CERN.

Contribution

It proposes using cosmological observations and upcoming antihydrogen experiments to test the role of antimatter in repulsive gravity and related phenomena.

Findings

Cosmology can test antimatter's role in repulsive gravity.

Upcoming CERN experiments aim to measure gravity's effect on antihydrogen.

Antigravity could potentially explain dark energy, dark matter, and CP violation.

Abstract

Whereas repulsive gravity was considered as a fringe concept until the mid-1990's, the growingexperimental evidence since this epoch for repulsive gravity, in what is now called Dark Energy,for lack of a better understanding of its nature, has led to a vast literature in order to attemptto characterize this repulsive component, and notably its equation of state. In the following, Iwill show that we can use cosmology to test the hypothesis that antimatter is at the origin ofrepulsive gravity, may play the role of a Dark Energy component and, more surprisingly, maymimic the presence of Dark Matter, and justify the MOND phenomenology. More directly,three experiments, AEgIS, ALPHA-g and Gbar, are attempting to measure the action ofgravitation on cold atoms of antihydrogen at CERN in a near future. Finally, I note thatCP violation might be explained by antigravity and I briefly recall the motivations for thisassertion.