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. 2003 Jul 11;91(2):020401.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.020401. Epub 2003 Jul 10.

Modern Michelson-Morley experiment using cryogenic optical resonators

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Modern Michelson-Morley experiment using cryogenic optical resonators

Holger Müller et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

We report on a new test of Lorentz invariance performed by comparing the resonance frequencies of two orthogonal cryogenic optical resonators subject to Earth's rotation over approximately 1 yr. For a possible anisotropy of the speed of light c, we obtain Delta(theta)c/c(0)=(2.6+/-1.7)x10(-15). Within the Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl (RMS) test theory, this implies an isotropy violation parameter beta-delta-1 / 2=(-2.2+/-1.5)x10(-9), about 3 times lower than the best previous result. Within the general extension of the standard model of particle physics, we extract limits on seven parameters at accuracies down to 10(-15), improving the best previous result by about 2 orders of magnitude.

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