Next Generation of Phonon Tests of Lorentz Invariance Using Quartz BAW Resonators

We demonstrate technological improvements in phonon sector tests of the Lorentz invariance that implement quartz bulk acoustic wave oscillators. In this experiment, room temperature oscillators with state-of-the-art phase noise are continuously compared on a platform that rotates at a rate of order of a cycle per second. The discussion is focused on improvements in noise measurement techniques, data acquisition, and data processing. Preliminary results of the second generation of such tests are given, and indicate that standard model extension coefficients in the matter sector can be measured at a precision of order 10
^-16
GeV after taking a year's worth of data. This is equivalent to an improvement of two orders of magnitude over the prior acoustic phonon sector experiment.