The Aladin2 experiment: sensitivity study
  Aladin2 is an experiment devoted to the first measurement of variations of Casimir energy in a rigid body. The main short-term scientific motivation relies on the possibility of the first demonstration of a phase transition influenced by vacuum fluctuations while, in the long term and in the mainframe of the cosmological constant problem, it can be regarded as the first step towards a measurement of the weight of vacuum energy. In this paper, after a presentation of the guiding principle of the measurement, the experimental apparatus and sensitivity studies on final cavities will be presented. 
Giuseppe Bimonte, Detlef Born, Enrico Calloni, Giampiero Esposito, Uwe   Hubner, Evgeni Il'ichev, Luigi Rosa, Ornella Scalda...