Triangular Ring Resonator: Direct measurement of the parity-odd parameters of the photon sector of SME

TL;DR

The paper introduces a Triangular Ring resonator that can directly measure parity-odd parameters of the photon sector in the Standard Model Extension, significantly improving sensitivity over previous methods.

Contribution

It presents the design and potential of the Triangular Ring resonator for direct measurement of Lorentz symmetry breaking parameters in the photon sector.

Findings

Current technology allows for direct measurement of these parameters.

The resonator improves bounds on parity-odd parameters by a few orders of magnitude.

Potential to enhance GPS bounds on light speed constancy near Earth.

Abstract

We introduce the the Triangular Ring (TR) resonator. We show that the difference between the clockwise and anti-clockwise resonant frequencies of a vacuum TR resonator is sensitive to the birefringence parity-odd parameters of the photon's sector of the minimal Standard Model Extension (mSME): the Standard Model plus all the perturbative parameters encoding the break the Lorentz symmetry. We report that utilizing the current technology allows for direct measurement of these parameters with a sensitivity of the parity even ones and improves the best current resonator bounds by couple of orders of magnitudes. We note that designing an optical table that rotates perpendicular to the gravitational equipotential surface (geoid) allows for direct measurement of the constancy of the light speed at the vicinity of the earth in all directions in particular perpendicular to the geoid. If this table could achieve the precision of the ordinary tables, then it would improve the GPS bounds on the constancy of the light speed perpendicular to geoid by about eight orders of magnitude.