New methods of testing Lorentz violation in electrodynamics
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 (IS) experiments are sensitive to the scalar coefficient, b...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physical review. D 2005-01, Vol.71 (2), Article 025004 |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 (IS) experiments are sensitive to the scalar coefficient, but at only parts in 105 for the state-of-the-art experiment. We then propose asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers with different electromagnetic properties in the two arms, including recycling techniques based on travelling wave resonators to improve the sensitivity. With present technology we estimate that the scalar and parity-odd coefficients may be measured with a sensitivity better than parts in 1011 and 1015 respectively. |
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ISSN: | 1550-7998 2470-0010 0556-2821 1550-2368 2470-0029 1089-4918 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.025004 |