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A popular framework for exploring Lorentz violation is the Standard Model Extension. This extension contains a large number of parameters that can be bounded in various experiments. Most studies, however, focus on the fermion or photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Alexander Michel , Marc Sher

Short-range experiments testing the gravitational inverse-square law at the submillimeter scale offer uniquely sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance. A combined analysis of results from the short-range gravity experiments HUST-2015,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-08 Cheng-Gang Shao , Yu-Jie Tan , Wen-Hai Tan , Shan-Qing Yang , Jun Luo , Michael Edmund Tobar , Quentin G. Bailey , J. C. Long , E. Weisman , Rui Xu , Alan Kostelecky

This article describes a method called Lorentz Force Electrical Impedance Tomography. The electrical conductivity of biological tissues can be measured through their sonication in a magnetic field: the vibration of the tissues inside the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Pol Grasland-Mongrain , Jean-Martial Mari , Jean-Yves Chapelon , Cyril Lafon

For the purpose of searching for Lorentz-invariance violation in the minimal Standard-Model Extension, we perfom a reanalysis of data obtained from the $^{133}\text{Cs}$ fountain clock operating at SYRTE. The previous study led to new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 H. Pihan-Le Bars , C. Guerlin , Q. G. Bailey , S. Bize , P. Wolf

Local Lorentz invariance violation can be realized by introducing extra tensor fields in the action that couple to matter. If the Lorentz violation is rotationally invariant in some frame, then it is characterized by an ``aether'', i.e. a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Jacobson , D. Mattingly

A general framework for tests of Lorentz invariance with electromagnetic waves is presented, allowing for operators of arbitrary mass dimension. Signatures of Lorentz violations include vacuum birefringence, vacuum dispersion, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive imaging method whereby electrical measurements on the boundary of a conductive medium (the data) are taken according to a prescribed protocol set and inverted to map the internal…

We report on a measurement of the constancy and anisotropy of the speed of light relative to the electrons in photon-electron scattering. We used the Compton scattering asymmetry measured by the new Compton polarimeter in Hall~C at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-29 P. Mohanmurthy , A. Narayan , D. Dutta

In an earlier paper [1] (hep-ph/0408006), the bound on the Standard Model Extension photon-sector parameter $\tilde{\kappa}_{tr}$ [2] (hep-ph/0205211) set by the heavy-ion storage-ring experiment of Saathoff et al. [3] was incorrectly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Hohensee , Alex Glenday , Chih-Hao Li , Michael Edmund Tobar , Peter Wolf

Low-energy experiments studying single beta decay can serve as sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance that can complement interferometric searches for deviations from this spacetime symmetry. Experimental signatures of a dimension-three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-26 Jorge S. Diaz

The frequencies of a cryogenic sapphire oscillator and a hydrogen maser are compared to set new constraints on a possible violation of Lorentz invariance. We determine the variation of the oscillator frequency as a function of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Wolf , S. Bize , A. Clairon , A. N. Luiten , G. Santarelli , M. E. Tobar

Motivated by ideas about quantum gravity, a tremendous amount of effort over the past decade has gone into testing Lorentz invariance in various regimes. This review summarizes both the theoretical frameworks for tests of Lorentz invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 David Mattingly

The Newton limit of gravity is studied in the presence of Lorentz-violating gravitational operators of arbitrary mass dimension. The linearized modified Einstein equations are obtained and the perturbative solutions are constructed and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-17 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

We describe a broadly applicable experimental proposal to search for the violation of local Lorentz invariance (LLI) with atomic systems. The new scheme uses dynamic decoupling and can be implemented in current atomic clocks experiments,…

Lorentz invariance is such an important principle of fundamental physics that it should constantly be subjected to experimental scrutiny as well as theoretical questioning. Distant astrophysical sources of energetic photons with rapid time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 John Ellis , Nick E. Mavromatos

The prospects are explored for testing Lorentz- and CPT-violating quantum electrodynamics in experiments with Penning traps. We present the Lagrange density of Lorentz-violating spinor electrodynamics with operators of mass dimensions up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-28 Yunhua Ding , Alan Kostelecky

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

We review our recent Michelson-Morley (MM) and Kennedy-Thorndike (KT) experiment, which tests Lorentz invariance in the photon sector, and report first results of our ongoing atomic clock test of Lorentz invariance in the matter sector. The…

Lorentz symmetry is a foundational property of modern physics, underlying the standard model of particles and general relativity. It is anticipated that these two theories are low energy approximations of a single theory that is unified and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-15 M. Nagel , S. R. Parker , E. V. Kovalchuk , P. L. Stanwix , J. G. Hartnett , E. N. Ivanov , A. Peters , M. E. Tobar

A wireless wearable Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) system has been developed utilizing the AD5933 chip to achieve real-time imaging of lung respiration. The system employs a voltage excitation method tailored to human impedance…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Bowen Li , Zekun Chen , Xuefei Chen , Luhao Zhang , Shili Liang