Constraints on Torsion from Lorentz Violation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-13 v2 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Exceptional sensitivity to spacetime torsion can be achieved by searching for its couplings to fermions. Recent experimental searches for Lorentz violation are exploited to extract new constraints involving 19 of the 24 independent torsion components down to levels of order 10^{-31} GeV.
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@article{arxiv.0712.4393,
title = {Constraints on Torsion from Lorentz Violation},
author = {Alan Kostelecky and Neil Russell and Jay Tasson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.4393},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages two-column REVTeX, accepted in Physical Review Letters