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A modification of the measurement scheme is proposed that allows simultaneous measurements of both the Casimir pressure and its gradient in one experiment. It is shown that with several improvements the Cannex test will be capable to strengthen the constraints on the parameters of the Yukawa-type interaction by up to an order of magnitude over a wide interaction range. The constraints on the coupling constants between nucleons and axion-like particles, which are considered as the most probable constituents of dark matter, could also be strengthened over a region of axion masses from 1 to 100 meV.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym11030407","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,21]],"date-time":"2019-03-21T04:11:56Z","timestamp":1553141516000},"page":"407","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Prospects for Searching Thermal Effects, Non-Newtonian Gravity and Axion-Like Particles: Cannex Test of the Quantum Vacuum"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0495-5907","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Galina","family":"Klimchitskaya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 196140, Russia"},{"name":"Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg 195251, Russia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8560-998X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vladimir","family":"Mostepanenko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 196140, Russia"},{"name":"Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg 195251, Russia"},{"name":"Kazan Federal University, Kazan 420008, Russia"}]},{"given":"Ren\u00e9","family":"Sedmik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"given":"Hartmut","family":"Abele","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"620","DOI":"10.1119\/1.17850","article-title":"Vacuum catastrophe: An elementary exposition of the cosmological constant problem","volume":"63","author":"Adler","year":"1995","journal-title":"Am. 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