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GR: Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 15: Experimentelle Tests

GR 15.4: Vortrag

Dienstag, 8. März 2005, 14:45–15:00, TU BH262

Tests of Lorentz invariance using hydrogen molecules — •Holger Müller¹, Sven Herrmann², Alejandro Saenz², Achim Peters² und Claus Lämmerzahl³ — ¹Physics Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305; email: holgerm@stanford.edu — ²Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Germany — ³ZARM, Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm, 28359 Bremen, Germany

We discuss the consequences of Lorentz violation (as expressed within the Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model) for the hydrogen molecule, which represents a generic model of a molecular binding. Lorentz-violating shifts of electronic, vibrational and rotational energy levels, and of the internuclear distance are calculated. This offers the possibility of obtaining improved bounds on Lorentz invariance by experiments using molecules.