New limit on signals of Lorentz violation in electrodynamics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Lipa, J A ^a   Nissen, J A ^a   Wang, S ^a   Stricker, D A ^a   Avaloff, D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPACE RESEARCH; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CYLINDRICAL SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITY STABILIZED OSCILLATORS; LORENTZ VIOLATION; SPACETIME ANISOTROPY; STANDARD MODEL EXTENSION;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037435852     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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