BOOST -- A Satellite Mission to Test Lorentz Invariance Using High-Performance Optical Frequency References
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-08-01 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Optics
Space Physics
Abstract
BOOST (BOOst Symmetry Test) is a proposed satellite mission to search for violations of Lorentz invariance by comparing two optical frequency references. One is based on a long-term stable optical resonator and the other on a hyperfine transition in molecular iodine. This mission will allow to determine several parameters of the standard model extension in the electron sector up to two orders of magnitude better than with the current best experiments. Here, we will give an overview of the mission, the science case and the payload.
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@article{arxiv.1805.01265,
title = {BOOST -- A Satellite Mission to Test Lorentz Invariance Using High-Performance Optical Frequency References},
author = {Norman Gürlebeck and Lisa Wörner and Thilo Schuldt and Klaus Döringshoff and Konstantin Gaul and Domenico Gerardi and Arne Grenzebach and Nandan Jha and Evgeny Kovalchuk and Andreas Resch and Thijs Wendrich and Robert Berger and Sven Herrmann and Ulrich Johann and Markus Krutzik and Achim Peters and Ernst M. Rasel and Claus Braxmaier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.01265},
year = {2018}
}
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11 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D