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A New Limit on Signals of Lorentz Violation in Electrodynamics

J. A. Lipa, J. A. Nissen, S. Wang, D. A. Stricker, D. Avaloff

physics.class-pharXiv:physics/0302093

Abstract

We describe the results of an experiment to test for spacetime anisotropy terms that might exist from Lorentz violations. The apparatus consists of a pair of cylindrical superconducting cavity-stabilized oscillators operating in the TM010 mode with one axis east-west and the other vertical. Spatial anisotropy is detected by monitoring the beat frequency at the sidereal rate and its first harmonic. We see no anisotropy to a part in 1013. This puts a comparable bound on four linear combinations of parameters in the general Standard Model extension, and a weaker bound of <4 x 10-9 on three others.

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