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Comment on "Test of constancy of speed of light with rotating cryogenic optical resonators"

Classical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A recent experiment by Antonini et. al. [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 71}, 050101R 2005], set new limits on Lorentz violating parameters in the frame-work of the photon sector of the Standard Model Extension (SME), κ~eZZ\tilde{\kappa}_{e-}^{ZZ}, and the Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl (RMS) framework, βδ1/2\beta-\delta-1/2. The experiment had significant systematic effects caused by the rotation of the apparatus which were only partly analysed and taken into account. We show that this is insufficient to put a bound on κ~eZZ\tilde{\kappa}_{e-}^{ZZ} and the bound on βδ1/2\beta-\delta-1/2 represents a five-fold improvement not a ten-fold improvement as claimed. (For reply see Phys. Rev. A 72, 066102 (2005) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.066102)

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@article{arxiv.physics/0601186,
  title  = {Comment on "Test of constancy of speed of light with rotating cryogenic optical resonators"},
  author = {Michael E. Tobar and Peter Wolf and Paul L. Stanwix},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0601186},
  year   = {2007}
}

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