Lorentz noninvariance and the Eötvös experiments

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Ephraim Fischbach
• Author: Mark P. Haugan
• Author: Dubravko Tadić; MBZ: 48880
• Author: Hai-Yang Cheng
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; (Department of Physics)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: NATURAL SCIENCES; Physics

Abstract (english)

We explore the consequences of Lorentz noninvariance (LNI) for the Eötvös experiments in several models. It is shown that a violation of Lorentz invariance leads to an anomalous difference in the gravitational acceleration of two test masses which depends on their composition. Using the present experimental limits from the Eötvös experiments, we then derive a limit on the magnitude of a possible violation of Lorentz invariance in the model of Nielsen and Picek (NP). In an Appendix we present a detailed discussion of the contribution to the nuclear binding energy due to the weak interactions, which are the presumed source of the LNI effects in the NP model.

• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Physical Review D, Particles and fields
• Numbering: vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 154-162
• p-ISSN: 0556-2821
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.154
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:366535
• Publication: 1985
• Document URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.154
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Public note: Copyright (1985) by the American Physical Society.
• Created on: 2019-09-26 12:10:21