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Probing CPT breaking induced by quantum decoherence at DUNE

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-04-24 v1

Abstract

We show that, the decoherence phenomena applied to the neutrino system could lead us to have an observable breaking of the fundamental CPT symmetry. We require a specific textures of non-diagonal decoherence matrices, with non-zero δCP\delta_{CP}, for having such observations. Using the information from the CPT conjugate channels: νμνμ\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{\mu} and νˉμνˉμ\bar{\nu}_{\mu} \rightarrow \bar{\nu}_{\mu} and its corresponding backgrounds, we have estimated the sensitivity of DUNE experiment for testing CPT under the previous conditions. Four scenarios for energy dependent decoherence parameters ΓEν=Γ×(Eν/GeV)n\Gamma_{E_\nu}=\Gamma \times (E_\nu/\mathrm{GeV})^n, n=1,0,1,n=-1,0,1, and 22 are taken into account, for most of them, DUNE is able to achieve a 5σ\sigma discovery potential having Γ\Gamma in O(1023\mathcal{O} (10^{-23} GeV) for δCP=3π/2\delta_{CP}=3\pi/2. Meanwhile, for δCP=π/2\delta_{CP}=\pi/2 we reach 3σ\sigma for Γ\Gamma in O(1024\mathcal{O} (10^{-24} GeV).

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@article{arxiv.1811.04982,
  title  = {Probing CPT breaking induced by quantum decoherence at DUNE},
  author = {J. C. Carrasco and F. N. Díaz and A. M. Gago},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04982},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures

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