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Testing Lorentz-symmetry violation via electroweak decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-04-08 v3

Abstract

In this work we introduce CPT-odd non-minimal Lorentz-symmetry violating couplings to the electroweak sector modifying the interaction between leptons and gauge bosons. The vertex rules allow us to calculate tree-level processes modified by the presence of the novel dimension-five operators. For definitiveness, we investigate the WW decay into a lepton-neutrino pair, the ZZ decay into pairs of charged and neutral leptons, as well as the decay of the muon. By comparing the experimental measurements on these processes to our results we are able to bound several combinations of the background 4-vectors to be 104\mboxGeV1\lesssim 10^{-4} \, \mbox{GeV}^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1909.10398,
  title  = {Testing Lorentz-symmetry violation via electroweak decays},
  author = {Y. M. P. Gomes and P. C. Malta and M. J. Neves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10398},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures, matches published version

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