We present new results from our test of Lorentz invariance, which compares two orthogonal cryogenic sapphire microwave oscillators rotating in the lab. We have now acquired over 1 year of data, allowing us to avoid the short data set approximation (less than 1 year) that assumes no cancelation occurs between the κ~e− and κ~o+ parameters from the photon sector of the standard model extension. Thus, we are able to place independent limits on all eight κ~e− and κ~o+ parameters. Our results represents up to a factor of 10 improvement over previous non rotating measurements (which independently constrained 7 parameters), and is a slight improvement (except for κ~e−ZZ) over results from previous rotating experiments that assumed the short data set approximation. Also, an analysis in the Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl framework allows us to place a new limit on the isotropy parameter PMM=δ−β+1/2 of 9.4(8.1)×10−11, an improvement of a factor of 2.
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0609072,
title = {Improved test of Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics using Rotating Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillators},
author = {Paul L. Stanwix and Michael E. Tobar and Peter Wolf and Clayton R. Locke and Eugene N. Ivanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0609072},
year = {2008}
}