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CPT and Superstring

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss the possibility that CPT violation may appear as a consequence of microscopic decoherence due to quantum-gravity effects, that we describe using a density-matrix formalism motivated by our studies of non-critical string theory. The maximum possible order of magnitude of such decohering CPT-violating effects is not far from the sensitivity of present experiments on the neutral kaon system, and we review a simple parametrization for them. We also review a recent data analysis carried out together with the CPLEAR collaboration, which bounds any such decohering CPT-violating parameters to be \lappeq1019\lappeq 10^{-19} GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9607434,
  title  = {CPT and Superstring},
  author = {John Ellis and N. E. Mavromatos and D. V. Nanopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9607434},
  year   = {2007}
}

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15 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures (included)