Submitting Campus
Prescott
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication/Presentation Date
4-2010
Abstract/Description
In the last decade, a variety of high-precision experiments have searched for miniscule violations of Lorentz symmetry. These searches are largely motivated by the possibility of uncovering experimental signatures from a fundamental unified theory. Experimental results are reported in the framework called the Standard-Model Extension (SME), which describes general Lorentz violation for each particle species in terms of its coefficients for Lorentz violation. Recently, the role of gravitational experiments in probing the SME has been explored in the literature. In this talk, I will summarize theoretical and experimental aspects of these works. I will also discuss recent lunar laser ranging and atom interferometer experiments, which place stringent constraints on gravity coefficients for Lorentz violation.
Publication Title
Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921309990706
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Scholarly Commons Citation
Bailey, Q. G. (2010). Lorentz Violation and Gravity. Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis, IAU S261(). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921309990706
Additional Information
This paper was part of the 2009 Proceedings of the International Astronomy Union Symposia and Colloquia edited by S.A. Klioner, P.K. Seidelman, and M.H. Soffel. ISBN: 9780521764810.