Rotating optical cavity experiment testing Lorentz invariance at the10−17level

A Michelson-Morley Test of Lorentz Invariance Using a Rotating Optical Cavity

This thesis presents a modern Michelson-Morley experiment, which provides improved limits on test parameters that model a violation of Lorentz invariance in electrodynamics. The measurement thereby sets an upper limit on an anisotropy of the speed of light at a level of ∆c/c ∼ 10−16. The experiment compares the resonance frequencies of two optical highfinesse cavities, one of them continuously ...

Testing Lorentz and CPT Invariance with Neutrinos

Neutrino experiments can be considered sensitive tools to test Lorentz and CPT invariance. Taking advantage of the great variety of neutrino experiments, including neutrino oscillations, weak decays, and astrophysical neutrinos, the generic experimental signatures of the breakdown of these fundamental symmetries in the neutrino sector are presented.

Rotating Resonator-Oscillator Experiments to Test Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics

Experimental Design for Testing Local Lorentz Invariance Violations in Gravity

Local Lorentz invariance is an important component of General Relativity. Testing for Local Lorentz invariance can not only probe the foundation stone of General Relativity but also help to explore the unified theory for General Relativity and quantum mechanics. In this paper, we search the Local Lorentz invariance violation associated with operators of mass dimension d = 6 in the pure-gravity ...

Testing Lorentz and Cpt Invariance with Minos near Detector Neutrinos

We present an analysis designed to search for Lorentz and CPT violations as predicted by the SME framework using the charged current neutrino events in the MINOS near detector. In particular we develop methods to identify periodic variations in the normalized number of charged current neutrino events as a function of sidereal phase. To test these methods, we simulated a set of 1,000 experiments...