42:. Heckel became an assistant professor in 1983, an associate professor in 1987, and a full professor in 1991 at the University of Washington, where he was temporarily head of the physics department. Heckel founded there with
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Hoyle, C. D.; Schmidt, U.; Heckel, B. R.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Kapner, D. J.; Swanson, H. E. (2001). "Submillimeter Test of the
Gravitational Inverse-Square Law: A Search for "Large" Extra Dimensions".
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Kapner, D. J.; Cook, T. S.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Heckel, B. R.; Hoyle, C. D.; Swanson, H. E. (2007). "Tests of the
Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale".
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Venema, B. J.; Majumder, P. K.; Lamoreaux, S. K.; Heckel, B. R.; Fortson, E. N. (1992). "Search for a coupling of the Earth's gravitational field to nuclear spins in atomic mercury".
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Baeßler, S.; Heckel, B. R.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Schmidt, U.; Swanson, H. E. (1999). "Improved Test of the
Equivalence Principle for Gravitational Self-Energy".
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at small distances. Heckel and his colleagues also used the torsion balance to test
Lorentz invariance with polarized electrons and to look for new spin-dependent forces.
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Terrano, W. A.; Adelberger, E. G.; Lee, J. G.; Heckel, B. R. (2015). "Short-Range, Spin-Dependent
Interactions of Electrons: A Probe for Exotic Pseudo-Goldstone Bosons".
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Heckel and his colleagues also measured the coupling constants of the weak interaction of neutrons with nucleons. His team used beams of cold polarized neutrons from the
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Griffith, W. C.; Swallows, M. D.; Loftus, T. H.; Romalis, M. V.; Heckel, B. R.; Fortson, E. N. (2009). "Improved Limit on the
Permanent Electric Dipole Moment ofHg199".
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Adelberger, E.G.; Gundlach, J.H.; Heckel, B.R.; Hoedl, S.; Schlamminger, S. (2009). "Torsion balance experiments: A low-energy frontier of particle physics".
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Su, Y.; Heckel, B. R.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Harris, M.; Smith, G. L.; Swanson, H. E. (1994). "New tests of the universality of free fall".
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Smith, G. L.; Hoyle, C. D.; Gundlach, J. H.; Adelberger, E. G.; Heckel, B. R.; Swanson, H. E. (1999). "Short-range tests of the equivalence principle".
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and violation of time reversal invariance, by means of measuring upper limits for the electric dipole moment of atoms such as
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Lee, J. G.; Adelberger, E. G.; Cook, T. S.; Fleischer, S. M.; Heckel, B. R. (2020). "New Test of the
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