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Stephen R Parker1, Matthew Mewes, Paul L Stanwix
1School of Physics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley WA, Australia.
Abstract:
We determine the sensitivity of a modern Michelson-Morley resonant-cavity experiment to higher-order nonbirefringent and nondispersive coefficients of the Lorentz-violating standard-model extension. Data from a recent year-long run of the experiment are used to place the first experimental bounds on coefficients associated with nonrenormalizable Lorentz-violating operators.
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