# Lorentz Violation and Sagnac Gyroscopes

## TL;DR

This paper proposes using highly sensitive Sagnac gyroscopes to detect potential Lorentz violations and deviations from gravity's inverse square law, offering a new experimental approach within the Standard-Model Extension framework.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel method to utilize Sagnac gyroscopes for testing Lorentz violation and gravity deviations, providing equations to evaluate sensitivities.

## Key findings

- Potential to achieve competitive sensitivities in Lorentz violation detection
- Ability to probe deviations from the inverse square law of gravity
- Framework for analyzing experimental sensitivities

## Abstract

Sagnac gyroscopes with increased sensitivity are being developed and operated with a variety of goals including the measurement of General-Relativistic effects. We show that such systems can be used to search for Lorentz violation within the field-theoretic framework of the Standard-Model Extension, and that competitive sensitivities can be achieved. Special deviations from the inverse square law of gravity are among the phenomena that can be effectively sought with these systems. We present the necessary equations to obtain sensitivities to Lorentz violation in relevant experiments.