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Lorentz violation in simple QED processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-19 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We determine the effect of a CPT-even and Lorentz violating non-minimal coupling on the differential cross sections for some of the most important tree-level processes in QED, namely, Compton and Bhabha scatterings, as well as electron-positron annihilation. Experimental limits constraining the allowed deviation of the differential cross sections relative to pure QED allow us to place upper bounds on the Lorentz violating parameters. A constraint based on the decay rate of para-positronium is also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1605.08059,
  title  = {Lorentz violation in simple QED processes},
  author = {G. P. de Brito and J. T. Guaitolini Junior and D. Kroff and P. C. Malta and C. Marques},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08059},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Final version, includind suggestions of the referee. Published in PRD

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