Prospects for Large Relativity Violations in Matter-Gravity Couplings
Abstract
Deviations from relativity are tightly constrained by numerous experiments. A class of unmeasured and potentially large violations is presented that can be tested in the laboratory only via weak-gravity couplings. Specialized highly sensitive experiments could achieve measurements of the corresponding effects. A single constraint of 1×10-11GeV is extracted on one combination of the 12 possible effects in ordinary matter. Estimates are provided for attainable sensitivities in existing and future experiments.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.010402
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0810.1459
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhRvL.102a0402K
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 10 pages