The Equivalence Principle in the Non-baryonic Regime
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-12-30 v1
Abstract
We consider the empirical validity of the equivalence principle for non-baryonic matter. Working in the context of the TH\epsilon\mu formalism, we evaluate the constraints experiments place on parameters associated with violation of the equivalence principle (EVPs) over as wide a sector of the standard model as possible. Specific examples include new parameter constraints which arise from torsion balance experiments, gravitational red shift, variation of the fine structure constant, time-dilation measurements, and matter/antimatter experiments. We find several new bounds on EVPs in the leptonic and kaon sectors.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9609039,
title = {The Equivalence Principle in the Non-baryonic Regime},
author = {C. Alvarez and R. B. Mann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9609039},
year = {2009}
}
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22 pages, latex