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Testing Lorentz invariance and CPT symmetry using gamma-ray burst neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-03-06 v2

Abstract

A recent work [Y. Huang and B.-Q. Ma, Commun. Phys. {\bf 1}, 62 (2018)] associated all four PeV neutrinos observed by IceCube to gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and revealed a regularity which indicates a Lorentz violation scale ELV=(6.5±0.4)×1017E_{\rm LV}=(6.5\pm0.4)\times10^{17} GeV with opposite sign factors s=±1s=\pm 1 between neutrinos and antineutrinos. The association of "time delay" and "time advance" events with neutrinos and antineutrinos (or vice versa) is only a hypothesis since the IceCube detector cannot tell the chirality of the neutrinos, and further experimental tests are needed to verify this hypothesis. We derive the values of the CPT-odd Lorentz violating parameters in the standard-model extension (SME) framework, and perform a threshold analysis on the electron-positron pair emission of the superluminal neutrinos (or antineutrinos). We find that different neutrino/antineutrino propagation properties, suggested by Y. Huang and B.-Q. Ma, can be described in the SME framework with both Lorentz invariance and CPT symmetry violation, but with a threshold energy constraint. A viable way on testing the CPT symmetry violation between neutrinos and antineutrinos is suggested.

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@article{arxiv.1810.03571,
  title  = {Testing Lorentz invariance and CPT symmetry using gamma-ray burst neutrinos},
  author = {Xinyi Zhang and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03571},
  year   = {2019}
}

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7 latex pages, significantly revised version for final publication