Quantum-gravity phenomenology, Lorentz symmetry, and the SME
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Violations of spacetime symmetries have recently been identified as promising signatures for physics underlying the Standard Model. The present talk gives an overview over various topics in this field: The motivations for spacetime-symmetry research, including some mechanisms for Lorentz breaking, are reviewed. An effective field theory called the Standard-Model Extension (SME) for the description of the resulting low-energy effects is introduced, and some experimental tests of Lorentz and CPT invariance are listed.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0703089,
title = {Quantum-gravity phenomenology, Lorentz symmetry, and the SME},
author = {Ralf Lehnert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0703089},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures, Plenary talk at 12th Mexican School on Particles and Fields and 6th Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics (VI-Silafae/XII-MSPF), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 1-8 Nov 2006