Optical cavity limits on higher order Lorentz violation

Yuta Michimura, Matthew Mewes, Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Yoichi Aso, Masaki Ando

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Abstract

An optical ring cavity is used to place the first laboratory constraints on parity-odd nonrenormalizable Lorentz violation. Variations in resonant frequencies are limited to parts in 1015. Absolute sensitivity to Lorentz-violating operators of mass dimension 6 is improved by a factor of a million over existing parity-even microwave-cavity bounds. Sensitivity to dimension-8 violations is improved by 14 orders of magnitude.

Original languageEnglish
Article number111101
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume88
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013 Dec 26

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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