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View SchemaModern Michelson-Morley experiment using cryogenic optical resonators
| Authors | Holger Mueller, Sven Herrmann, Claus Braxmaier, Stephan Schiller, Achim Peters |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0305117 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0305117 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.020401 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett.91:020401,2003 |
Abstract
We report on a new test of Lorentz invariance performed by comparing the resonance frequencies of two orthogonal cryogenic optical resonators subject to Earth's rotation over 1 year. For a possible anisotropy of the speed of light c, we obtain 2.6 +/- 1.7 parts in 10^15. Within the Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl test theory, this implies an isotropy violation parameter beta - delta - 1/2 of -2.2 +/- 1.5 parts in 10^9, about three times lower than the best previous result. Within the general extension of the standard model of particle physics, we extract limits on 7 parameters at accuracies down to a part in 10^15, improving the best previous result by about two orders of magnitude.
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