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Combined search for Lorentz violation in short-range gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-11-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

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, HUST-2011, IU-2012, and IU-2002 permits the first independent measurements of the 14 nonrelativistic coefficients for Lorentz violation in the pure-gravity sector at the level of 10910^{-9} m2^2, improving by an order of magnitude the sensitivity to numerous types of Lorentz violation involving quadratic curvature derivatives and curvature couplings.

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@article{arxiv.1607.06095,
  title  = {Combined search for Lorentz violation in short-range gravity},
  author = {Cheng-Gang Shao and Yu-Jie Tan and Wen-Hai Tan and Shan-Qing Yang and Jun Luo and Michael Edmund Tobar and Quentin G. Bailey and J. C. Long and E. Weisman and Rui Xu and Alan Kostelecky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06095},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages two-column REVTeX, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

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