| Autor: |
Hohensee, Michael A., Stanwix, Paul. L., Tobar, Michael Edmund, Parker, Stephen R., Phillips, David F., Walsworth, Ronald L. |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Phys.Rev.D82:076001,2010 |
| Druh dokumentu: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.076001 |
| Popis: |
We demonstrate that Michelson-Morley tests, which detect direction-dependent anisotropies in the speed of light, can also be used to place limits upon isotropic deviations of the vacuum speed of light from $c$, as described by the photon sector Standard Model Extension (SME) parameter $\tilde{\kappa}_{tr}$. A shift in the speed of light that is isotropic in one inertial frame implies anisotropic shifts in others. Using observer Lorentz covariance, we derive the time-dependent variations in the relative resonance frequencies of a pair of electromagnetic resonators that would be generated by such a shift in the rest frame of the Sun. A new analysis of a recent experimental test of relativity using this result constrains $\tilde{\kappa}_{tr}$ with a precision of $7.4\times10^{-9}$. This represents the first constraint on $\tilde{\kappa}_{tr}$ by a Michelson-Morley experiment and the first analysis of a single experiment to simultaneously set limits on all nine non-birefringent terms in the photon sector of the SME. |
| Databáze: |
arXiv |
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