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Test of CPT and Lorentz invariance from muonium spectroscopy

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-07-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Following a suggestion of Kostelecky et al. we have evaluated a test of CPT and Lorentz invariance from the microwave spectroscopy of muonium. Hamiltonian terms beyond the standard model violating CPT and Lorentz invariance would contribute frequency shifts δν12\delta\nu_{12} and δν34\delta\nu_{34} to ν12\nu_{12} and ν34\nu_{34}, the two transitions involving muon spin flip, which were precisely measured in ground state muonium in a strong magnetic field of 1.7 T. The shifts would be indicated by anti-correlated oscillations in ν12\nu_{12} and ν34\nu_{34} at the earth's sidereal frequency. No time dependence was found in ν12\nu_{12} or ν34\nu_{34} at the level of 20 Hz, limiting the size of some CPT and Lorentz violating parameters at the level of 2×10232\times10^{-23} GeV, representing Planck scale sensitivity and an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity over previous limits for the muon.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0106103,
  title  = {Test of CPT and Lorentz invariance from muonium spectroscopy},
  author = {V. W. Hughes and M. Grosse Perdekamp and D. Kawall and W. Liu and K. Jungmann and G. zu Putlitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0106103},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, uses REVTeX and epsf, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett