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Past electron-positron g-2 experiments yielded sharpest bound on CPT violation for point particles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-27 v3

Abstract

In our past experiments on a single electron and positron we measured the cyclotron and spin-cyclotron difference frequencies omega_c and omega_a and the ratios a = omega_a/ omega_c at omega_c = 141 Ghz for e^- and e^+ and later, only for e^-, also at 164 Ghz. Here, we do extract from these data, as had not done before, a new and very different figure of merit for violation of CPT symmetry, one similar to the widely recognized impressive limit |m_Kaon - m_Antikaon|/m_Kaon < 10^-18 for the K-mesons composed of two quarks. That expression may be seen as comparing experimental relativistic masses of particle states before and after the C, P, T operations had transformed particle into antiparticle. Such a similar figure of merit for a non-composite and quite different lepton, found by us from our Delta a = a^- - a^+ data, was even smaller, h_bar |omega_a^- - omega_a^+|/2m_0 c^2 = |Delta a| h_bar omega_c/2m_0 c^2) < 3(12) 10^-22.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9906262,
  title  = {Past electron-positron g-2 experiments yielded sharpest bound on CPT violation for point particles},
  author = {H. Dehmelt and R. Mittleman and R. S. Van Dyck, and P. Schwinberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9906262},
  year   = {2012}
}

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