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Lorentz Violation In Fermion-Antifermion Decays Of Spinless Particles, Brett David Altschul
Lorentz Violation In Fermion-Antifermion Decays Of Spinless Particles, Brett David Altschul
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If Lorentz and CPT violation exist, they could affect the decays of scalar and pseudoscalar particles. For a decay into a fermion and an antifermion (not necessarily of the same mass), both the total decay rate and the outgoing particle distribution may be modified, through interference between the conventional decay mechanism and a separate Lorentz-violating mechanism. The modifications are sensitive to forms of Lorentz violation that are otherwise rather difficult to study, since at tree level they do not affect particle propagation, but only interaction vertices. Using existing experimental data on charged pion decay, it is possible to constrain three …
Modeling-Free Bounds On Nonrenormalizable Isotropic Lorentz And Cpt Violation In Qed, Brett David Altschul
Modeling-Free Bounds On Nonrenormalizable Isotropic Lorentz And Cpt Violation In Qed, Brett David Altschul
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The strongest bounds on some forms of Lorentz and CPT violation come from astrophysical data, and placing such bounds may require understanding and modeling distant sources of radiation. However, it is also desirable to have bounds that do not rely on these kinds of detailed models. Bounds that do not rely on any modeling of astrophysical objects may be derived both from laboratory experiments and certain kinds of astrophysical observations. The strongest such bounds on isotropic modifications of electron, positron, and photon dispersion relations of the form E^2 = p^2 + m^ 2 + epsilon p^3 come from data on …