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Scattering And Absorption of Light in Planetary Regoliths
Published on: July 1, 2019
Limits on light-speed anisotropies from Compton scattering of high-energy electrons
J-P Bocquet1, D Moricciani, V Bellini
1LPSC, UJF Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, INPG, 53 avenue des Martyrs 38026 Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
The possibility of anisotropies in the speed of light relative to the limiting speed of electrons is considered. The absence of sidereal variations in the energy of Compton-edge photons at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility's GRAAL facility constrains such anisotropies representing the first nonthreshold collision-kinematics study of Lorentz violation. When interpreted within the minimal standard-model extension, this result yields the two-sided limit of 1.6×10(-14) at 95% confidence level on a combination of the parity-violating photon and electron coefficients (κ(o+))(YZ), (κ(o+))(ZX), c(TX), and c(TY). This new constraint provides an improvement over previous bounds by 1 order of magnitude.
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