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arXiv:physics/0506168 (physics)
[Submitted on 21 Jun 2005]

Title:Recent Experimental Tests of Special Relativity

Authors:Peter Wolf (SYRTE), Sebastien Bize (SYRTE), Michael E. Tobar, Frederic Chapelet (SYRTE), Andre Clairon (SYRTE), Andre N. Luiten, Giorgio Santarelli (SYRTE)
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Abstract: We review our recent Michelson-Morley (MM) and Kennedy-Thorndike (KT) experiment, which tests Lorentz invariance in the photon sector, and report first results of our ongoing atomic clock test of Lorentz invariance in the matter sector. The MM-KT experiment compares a cryogenic microwave resonator to a hydrogen maser, and has set the most stringent limit on a number of parameters in alternative theories to special relativity. We also report first results of a test of Lorentz invariance in the SME (Standard Model Extension) matter sector, using Zeeman transitions in a laser cooled Cs atomic fountain clock. We describe the experiment together with the theoretical model and analysis. Recent experimental results are presented and we give a first estimate of components of the $\tilde{c}^p$ parameters of the SME matter sector. A full analysis of systematic effects is still in progress, and will be the subject of a future publication together with our final results. If confirmed, the present limits would correspond to first ever measurements of some $\tilde{c}^p$ components, and improvements by 11 and 14 orders of magnitude on others.
Comments: 29 pages. Contribution to Springer Lecture Notes, "Special Relativity - Will it survive the next 100 years ?", Proceedings, Potsdam, 2005
Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:physics/0506168 [physics.class-ph]
  (or arXiv:physics/0506168v1 [physics.class-ph] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.physics/0506168
Journal reference: Lect.Notes Phys.702:451-478,2006
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34523-X_16

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