Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 111102 (2008) [4 pages]

Constraints on Torsion from Bounds on Lorentz Violation

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V. Alan Kostelecký¹, Neil Russell², and Jay D. Tasson¹
¹Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
²Physics Department, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan 49855, USA

Received 10 January 2008; published 20 March 2008

Exceptional sensitivity to spacetime torsion can be achieved by searching for its couplings to fermions. Recent experimental searches for Lorentz violation are exploited to extract new constraints involving 19 of the 24 independent torsion components down to levels of order 10^-31 GeV.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.111102

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.111102

PACS:

04.50.Kd, 04.20.−q, 11.30.Cp

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 111102 (2008) [4 pages]

Constraints on Torsion from Bounds on Lorentz Violation