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Test of Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics Using Rotating Cryogenic Sapphire Microwave Oscillators

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present the first results from a rotating Michelson-Morley experiment that uses two orthogonally orientated cryogenic sapphire resonator-oscillators operating in whispering gallery modes near 10 GHz. The experiment is used to test for violations of Lorentz Invariance in the frame-work of the photon sector of the Standard Model Extension (SME), as well as the isotropy term of the Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl (RMS) framework. In the SME we set a new bound on the previously unmeasured κ~eZZ\tilde{\kappa}_{e-}^{ZZ} component of 2.1(5.7)×10142.1(5.7)\times10^{-14}, and set more stringent bounds by up to a factor of 7 on seven other components. In the RMS a more stringent bound of 0.9(2.0)×1010-0.9(2.0)\times 10^{-10} on the isotropy parameter, PMM=δβ+1/2P_{MM}=\delta - \beta + {1/2} is set, which is more than a factor of 7 improvement. More detailed description of the experiment and calculations can be found in: hep-ph/0506200

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0506074,
  title  = {Test of Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics Using Rotating Cryogenic Sapphire Microwave Oscillators},
  author = {Paul L. Stanwix and Michael E. Tobar and Peter Wolf and Mohamad Susli and Clayton R. Locke and Eugene N. Ivanov and John Winterflood and Frank van Kann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0506074},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Final published version, 4 pages, references added