Abstract
We describe a method by which existing precision measurements may be used to provide a new laboratory test of the special theory of relativity. In this test the speed of light is compared to the limiting velocity of massive particles, . Although it is conventionally assumed that =ieqc, this need not be the case in phenomenological alternatives to special relativity. Our results impose limits on the quantity (1-/). Unlike null tests of special relativity, this limit does not depend on assumptions concerning the motion of the laboratory with respect to a preferred frame.
- Received 13 May 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.44.R2216
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