Combined Search for Lorentz Violation in Short-Range Gravity

Cheng Gang Shao, Yu Jie Tan, Wen Hai Tan, Shan Qing Yang, Jun Luo, Michael Edmund Tobar, Quentin G. Bailey, J. C. Long, E. Weisman, Rui Xu, V. Alan Kostelecký

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Abstract

Short-range experiments testing the gravitational inverse-square law at the submillimeter scale offer uniquely sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance. A combined analysis of results from the short-range gravity experiments HUST-2015, HUST-2011, IU-2012, and IU-2002 permits the first independent measurements of the 14 nonrelativistic coefficients for Lorentz violation in the pure-gravity sector at the level of 10-9 m2, improving by an order of magnitude the sensitivity to numerous types of Lorentz violation involving quadratic curvature derivatives and curvature couplings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number071102
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume117
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 10 2016
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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