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We demonstrate that Michelson-Morley tests, which detect direction-dependent anisotropies in the speed of light, can also be used to place limits upon isotropic deviations of the vacuum speed of light from $c$, as described by the photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Michael A. Hohensee , Paul. L. Stanwix , Michael Edmund Tobar , Stephen R. Parker , David F. Phillips , Ronald L. Walsworth

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul L. Stanwix , Michael E. Tobar , Peter Wolf , Clayton R. Locke , Eugene N. Ivanov

We propose and demonstrate a test of Lorentz symmetry based on new, compact, and reliable quartz oscillator technology. Violations of Lorentz invariance in the matter and photon-sector of the standard model extension (SME) generate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Anthony Lo , Philipp Haslinger , Eli Mizrachi , Loic Anderegg , Holger Müller , Michael Hohensee , Maxim Goryachev , Michael E Tobar

We investigate experiments that are sensitive to the scalar and parity-odd coefficients for Lorentz violation in the photon sector of the Standard Model Extension (SME). We show that of the classic tests of special relativity, Ives-Stilwell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Michael E. Tobar , Peter Wolf , Alison Fowler , John G. Hartnett

This work presents an experimental test of Lorentz invariance violation in the infrared (IR) regime by means of an invariant minimum speed in the spacetime and its effects on the time when an atomic clock given by a certain radioactive…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Cláudio Nassif , A. C. Amaro de Faria , Rodrigo Francisco dos Santos

We investigate Lorentz- and CPT-violating effects in neutron and storage-ring electric dipole moment (EDM) experiments within the framework of the Standard-Model Extension (SME). For neutron EDM experiments, perturbation theory is applied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-15 Yunhua Ding

In recent years, the breakdown of spacetime symmetries has been identified as a promising research field in the context of Planck-scale phenomenology. For example, various theoretical approaches to the quantum-gravity problem are known to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-08 Ralf Lehnert

I review first some theoretical motivations for violation of Lorentz and/or CPT Invariance. Although the latter symmetries may be violated in a quantum gravity setting, nevertheless there are situations in which these violations are due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Nick E. Mavromatos

An overview of the theoretical framework of the Standard Model Extension (SME) that allows for a parametrization of Lorentz and CPT violating effects using effective field theory will be presented. A review of current bounds on these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Don Colladay

The present report of the RF2 Topical Group to Snowmass 2021 describes the physics case for the studies of weak decays of strange and light quarks. Ongoing and proposed precision measurements of kaon, hyperon, pion and $\eta^{(\prime)}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-16 Evgueni Goudzovski , Emilie Passemar

We report Relativity tests based on data from two simultaneous Michelson-Morley experiments, spanning a period of more than one year. Both were actively rotated on turntables. One (in Berlin, Germany) uses optical Fabry-Perot resonators…

In the recent times, test of Lorentz Invariance has been used as a means to probe theories of physics beyond the standard model. We describe a simple way of utilizing the polarimeters, which are a critical beam instrument at precision and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-01-13 Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Dipangkar Dutta , Amrendra Narayan

We consider tests of Lorentz invariance for the photon and fermion sector that use vacuum and matter-filled cavities. Assumptions on the wave-function of the electrons in crystals are eliminated from the underlying theory and accurate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Mueller

We present a Michelson-Morley type experiment for testing the isotropy of the speed of light in vacuum and matter. The experiment compares the resonance frequency of an actively rotated monolithic optical cryogenic sapphire resonator…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 M. Nagel , K. Möhle , K. Döringshoff , E. V. Kovalchuk , A. Peters

A test of Lorentz invariance for electromagnetic waves was performed by comparing the resonance frequencies of two optical resonators as a function of orientation in space. In terms of the Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl theory, we obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Antonini , M. Okhapkin , E. Göklü , S. Schiller

Upon a suggestion of Kostelecky et al., we have performed a test of CPT and Lorentz invariance from the microwave spectroscopy of muonium. New terms in their standard model extension violating CPT and Lorentz symmetry would appear as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Kawall , V. W. Hughes , M. Grosse Perdekamp , W. Liu , K. Jungmann , G. zu Putlitz

The ongoing experimental efforts in the high energy and high precision communities keep providing evidence for CPT, a fundamental symmetry holding in any local Lorentz invariant theory. We suggest possible interconnections between different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-20 Shmuel Nussinov

Some of the well-known experiments: the ''muon'' experiment, the Michelson-Morley type experiments, the Kennedy-Thorndike type experiments and the Ives-Stilwell type experiments are analyzed using the nonrelativistic theory, the ''apparent…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomislav Ivezic

In the last decade, a variety of high-precision experiments have searched for miniscule violations of Lorentz symmetry. These searches are largely motivated by the possibility of uncovering experimental signatures from a fundamental unified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Quentin G. Bailey

Lorentz symmetry is one of the pillars of both General Relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics. Motivated by ideas about quantum gravity, unification theories and violations of CPT symmetry, a significant effort has been put…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-02 Aurélien Hees , Quentin G. Bailey , Adrien Bourgoin , Hélène Pihan-Le Bars , Christine Guerlin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte