Testing for Lorentz Violation: Constraints on Standard-Model-Extension Parameters via Lunar Laser Ranging

Battat, J. B. R.; Chandler, J. F.; Stubbs, C. W.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.241103

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“…If we then assume that the matter tensor (T M ) µν has independently vanishing divergence, then it follows that the remaining piece (T k ) µν must be independently covariantly conserved. In addition to diffeomorphism symmetry, the conservation law for local Lorentz symmetry is also satisfied by virtue of the symmetry of the free indices of the terms on the right-hand side of (6).…”

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“…In the case of gravity, work is underway to identify and measure signals for spacetime-symmetry breaking in the weak-field gravity regime. Analysis has already been performed with lunar laser ranging [6,7], atom interferometric gravimetry [8,9], gyroscopic tests [10], binary-pulsar tests [11], shortrange gravity tests [12][13][14] planetary ephemeris [15], cosmic rays [16], gravitational waves [17,18], and others [19].…”

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Anisotropic cubic curvature couplings

Bailey

2016

Phys. Rev. D

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To complement recent work on tests of spacetime symmetry in gravity, cubic curvature couplings are studied using an effective field theory description of spacetime-symmetry breaking. The associated mass dimension 8 coefficients for Lorentz violation studied do not result in any linearized gravity modifications and instead are revealed in the first nonlinear terms in an expansion of spacetime around a flat background. We consider effects on gravitational radiation through the energy loss of a binary system and we study two-body orbital perturbations using the post-Newtonian metric. Some effects depend on the internal structure of the source and test bodies, thereby breaking the Weak Equivalence Principle for self-gravitating bodies. These coefficients can be measured in solar-system tests, while binary-pulsar systems and short-range gravity tests are particularly sensitive.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Anisotropic cubic curvature couplings

Bailey

2016

Phys. Rev. D

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“…We also extend the analysis to incorporate the 2002 dataset obtained with the apparatus located in Boulder, CO [9]. Note that existing searches for pure-gravity local Lorentz violation within this framework have been restricted to the context of a Lorentz-violating inversesquare law [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. A few other short-range experiments [19][20][21][22] may have potential sensitivity to the modifications (1), while some experiments optimized for nonperturbative corrections to Newton's law could conceivably be adjusted to study perturbative effects [23][24][25][26].…”

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Search for Lorentz violation in short-range gravity

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Kostelecký

2015

Phys. Rev. D

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“…•Gravity Tests [156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163]: Lorentz violation in the gravity sector stems from both matter-gravity couplings and pure-gravity couplings. In some cases, the matter-gravity couplings can lead to sensitivity to forms of Lorentz violation that would otherwise go undetected in the absence of gravity.…”

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Observational Constraints on Local Lorentz Invariance

Bluhm

2014

Springer Handbooks

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The idea that local Lorentz invariance might be violated due to new physics that goes beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein's General Relativity has received a great deal of interest in recent years. At the same time, new experiments have been designed and conducted that are able to test Lorentz symmetry at unprecedented levels. Much of this theoretical and experimental progress has been driven by the development of the framework for investigating Lorentz violation known as the Standard Model Extension (SME). The SME is the lagrangian-based effective field theory that by definition contains all Lorentz-violating interaction terms that can be written as observer scalars involving particle fields in the Standard Model and gravitational fields in a generalized theory of gravity. This includes all terms that could arise from a process of spontaneous Lorentz violation as well as terms that explicitly break Lorentz symmetry. In this article, an overview of the SME is presented, including its motivations and construction. A very useful minimal version of the SME in Minkowski spacetime that maintains gauge invariance and power-counting renormalizability is constructed as well. Data tables summarizing tests of local Lorentz invariance for the different particle sectors in the Standard Model and with gravity are maintained by Kostelecký's group at Indiana University. A partial survey of these tests, including some of the high-precision sensitivities they attain, is presented here.

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Testing for Lorentz Violation: Constraints on Standard-Model-Extension Parameters via Lunar Laser Ranging

Cited by 148 publications

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Anisotropic cubic curvature couplings

Anisotropic cubic curvature couplings

Search for Lorentz violation in short-range gravity

Observational Constraints on Local Lorentz Invariance

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