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Investigating Lorentz and CPT Symmetry with Antihydrogen

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

This talk discusses theoretical aspects of tests of CPT and Lorentz Symmetry that will in principle be possible with trapped antihydrogen. The framework is the standard-model extension, which admits minuscule violations of CPT and Lorentz symmetry in a general manner without giving up other features of the standard model of particle physics. Spectroscopic transitions in hydrogen and antihydrogen that exhibit leading-order effects are identified. Such comparisons of spectral frequencies in antimatter with the corresponding frequencies in regular matter will bound parameter combinations that are not accessible with regular-matter atoms alone.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209251,
  title  = {Investigating Lorentz and CPT Symmetry with Antihydrogen},
  author = {Neil Russell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209251},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

10 pages, latex, invited talk at XIVth Rencontres de Blois on Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, Chateau de Blois, France, 16-22 June 2002