caa a22 4500 445381418 CHVBK 20180317143018.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10948-010-1045-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10948-010-1045-9 de Matos Clovis ESA-HQ, European Space Agency, 8-10 rue Mario Nikis, 75015, Paris, France aut Are Vortices in Rotating Superfluids Breaking the Weak Equivalence Principle? [Elektronische Daten] [Clovis de Matos] Due to the breaking of gauge symmetry in rotating superfluid Helium, the inertial mass of a vortex diverges logarithmically with the vortex size. The vortex inertial mass is thus much higher than the classical inertial mass of the vortex core. An equal increase of the vortex gravitational mass is questioned. The possibility that the vortices in a rotating superfluid could break the weak equivalence principle in relation with a variable speed of light in the superfluid vacuum is debated. Experiments to test this possibility are investigated on the basis that superfluid helium vortices would not fall, under the single influence of a uniform gravitational field, at the same rate as the rest of the superfluid helium mass. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Weak equivalence principle nationallicence Superfluid vortex mass nationallicence Gauge symmetry nationallicence Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/1-2(2011-01-01), 193-197 1557-1939 24:1-2<193 2011 24 10948 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-010-1045-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-010-1045-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- de Matos Clovis ESA-HQ, European Space Agency, 8-10 rue Mario Nikis, 75015, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/1-2(2011-01-01), 193-197 1557-1939 24:1-2<193 2011 24 10948 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer