Signals for Lorentz violation in electrodynamics

By A. Kostelecky, Matthew Mewes. 2002

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An investigation is performed of the Lorentz-violating electrodynamics extracted from the renormalizable sector of the general Lorentz- and CPT-violating standard-model extension. Among the unconventional properties of radiation arising from Lorentz violation is birefringence of the vacuum. Limits on the dispersion of light produced by galactic and extragalactic objects provide bounds of 3 x 10^{-16} on certain coefficients for Lorentz violation in the photon sector. The comparative spectral polarimetry of light from cosmologically distant sources yields stringent constraints of 2 x 10^{-32}. All remaining coefficients in the photon sector are measurable in high-sensitivity tests involving cavity-stabilized oscillators. Experimental configurations in Earth- and space-based laboratories are considered that involve optical or microwave cavities and that could be implemented using existing technology.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Highly charged ions: Optical clocks and applications in fundamental physics (2018, methodology): “The framework of interpreting the laboratory experiments involving monitoring atomic or nuclear frequencies in terms of the SME coefficients is described in detail by Kostelecký and Lane (1999); Kostelecký and Mewes (2002).”
Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules (2017, methodology): “Generally, one uses the Sun centered celestial-equatorial frame (SCCEF) for the analysis of the experiments (Kostelecký and Mewes, 2002), indicated by the coordinate indexes T , X, Y , and Z.”
Astrophysical Tests of Lorentz and CPT Violation with Photons (2008, methodology): “…for a change in polarization resulting from vacuum birefringence, using sources such as galaxies (Carroll et al. 1990; Colladay & Kostelecký 1998; Kostelecký & Mewes 2001, 2002), gamma-ray bursts (GRB) (Mitrofanov 2003; Jacobson et al. 2004; Kostelecký & Mewes 2006; Kahniashvili et al. 2006;…”
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics (2020, background): “14, which displays estimated sensitivities from DUNE atmospheric neutrinos to a subset of coefficients controlling isotropic (rotation-invariant) violations in the Sun-centered frame [246].”