title: Modern Michelson-Morley experiment using cryogenic optical resonators.
abstract: We report on a new test of Lorentz invariance performed by comparing the resonance frequencies of two orthogonal cryogenic optical resonators subject to Earth's rotation over approximately 1 yr. For a possible anisotropy of the speed of light c, we obtain Delta(theta)c/c(0)=(2.6+/-1.7)x10(-15). Within the Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl (RMS) test theory, this implies an isotropy violation parameter beta-delta-1 / 2=(-2.2+/-1.5)x10(-9), about 3 times lower than the best previous result. Within the general extension of the standard model of particle physics, we extract limits on seven parameters at accuracies down to 10(-15), improving the best previous result by about 2 orders of magnitude.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Germany. holger.mueller@physik.hu-berlin.de
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Herrmann
authors.forename: Claus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Braxmaier
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schiller
authors.forename: Achim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peters