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Interplay of CPT-Violating and CPT-Conserving Lorentz Invariance Violation at DUNE

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a study of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) in neutrino oscillations, with primary emphasis on the interplay between CPT-violating and CPT-conserving Standard Model Extension (SME) coefficients. We find that aeea_{ee} and aττa_{\tau\tau} dominate among the diagonal LIV coefficients, whereas aeμa_{e\mu} and aeτa_{e\tau} provide the most significant off-diagonal contributions. In contrast, the corresponding cαβc_{\alpha\beta} coefficients have comparatively sub-leading effects. Taking DUNE as a representative long-baseline experiment, we show that the sensitivity to CP violation is modified by LIV in a parameter-specific manner. We find correlations between off-diagonal LIV parameters, and non-trivial dependence on the new phases. In absence of LIV, DUNE is expected to establish CP violation at 5σ5\sigma for a limited fraction of δCP\delta_{CP} values. We find that the presence of aeea_{ee}, aττa_{\tau\tau}, aeμa_{e\mu} and aeτa_{e\tau} weakens the CP discovery potential, reducing the achievable significance to below 3σ3\sigma over a substantial fraction of δCP\delta_{\rm CP}. The independent impact of cαβc_{\alpha\beta} terms also results in suppression, but in combination with aαβa_{\alpha\beta}, they introduce degeneracies, complicating the extraction of δCP\delta_{CP}. This generally results in a deterioration of CP violation sensitivities below 5σ5\sigma. These findings emphasize the importance of incorporating LIV effects in precision oscillation studies at upcoming long-baseline experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2607.06513,
  title  = {Interplay of CPT-Violating and CPT-Conserving Lorentz Invariance Violation at DUNE},
  author = {Priyankush Deka and Arnab Sarker and Moon Moon Devi and Sushant K. Raut},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.06513},
  year   = {2026}
}

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34 pages, 10 figures, Comments are most welcome