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We study CPT and Lorentz violation in the electroweak gauge sector of the Standard Model in the context of the Standard-Model Extension. In particular, we consider the Lorentz-violating and CPT-odd Chern-Simons like parameter for the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-06 D. Colladay , J. P. Noordmans , R. Potting

The current paper is dedicated to determining perturbative expansions for Lagrangians describing classical, relativistic, pointlike particles subject to Lorentz violation parameterized by the nonminimal Standard-Model Extension (SME). An…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-17 M. Schreck

The behavior of fermions in the presence of Lorentz and CPT violation is studied. Allowing for operators of any mass dimension, we classify all Lorentz-violating terms in the quadratic Lagrange density for free fermions. The result is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

The modified Dirac equations describing massless and massive spin-1/2 particles violating the Lorentz invariance are considered. The equation for massless fermions with varying speed is formulated in the 16-component first-order form. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-07 S. I. Kruglov

Lorentz invariance violation is a feature of several quantum gravity models in which Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, leading to potential changes in particle behavior and interactions. In this study, we investigate vacuum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista , Feodor Mishin

We develop a systematic approach to the calculation of scattering cross sections in theories with violation of the Lorentz invariance taking into account the whole information about the theory Lagrangian. As an illustration we derive the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Grigory Rubtsov , Petr Satunin , Sergey Sibiryakov

The reference laboratory bounds on superluminality of the electron are obtained from the absence of in-vacuo Cherenkov processes and the determinations of synchrotron radiated power for LEP electrons. It is usually assumed that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-20 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Giulia Gubitosi , Niccoló Loret , Flavio Mercati , Giacomo Rosati

This paper focuses on additional inspections concerning the fermionic sector of the Standard Model Extension (SME). In this context, our main effort in this contribution is to investigate effects of Lorentz-symmetry violation (LSV) on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-17 João Paulo S. Melo , José A. Helayël-Neto

Low-energy Lorentz-invariant quantities could receive contributions from a fundamental theory producing small Lorentz-violating effects. Within the Lorentz-violating extension of quantum electrodynamics, we investigate, perturbatively, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-20 A. Moyotl , H. Novales-Sánchez , J. J. Toscano , E. S. Tututi

In this article the classical, relativistic Lagrangian based on the isotropic fermion sector of the Lorentz-violating (minimal) Standard-Model Extension is considered. The motion of the associated classical particle in an external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Schreck

Lorentz-violating Yukawa couplings lying within the renormalizable part of the SME generate Lorentz-invariant one-loop contributions to electromagnetic moments of fermions. These proceedings provide a discussion on such contributions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-27 Javier Montaño-Domínguez , Héctor Novales-Sánchez , Mónica Salinas , J. Jesús Toscano

The flavor-changing neutral current decay processes of the $B$ and $B_c$ mesons with the final states involving spin-$1/2$ particles are investigated. By considering the background of the Standard Model where $\nu\bar\nu$ contributes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-20 Geng Li , Tianhong Wang , Yue Jiang , Jing-Bo Zhang , Guo-Li Wang

We place limits on spherical coefficients for Lorentz violation involving operators of dimension four in the photon sector of the minimal Standard-Model Extension. The bounds are deduced from existing experimental results with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-29 W. J. Jessup , N. E. Russell

Within the classical Maxwell-Chern-Simons limit of the Standard-Model Extension (SME), the emission of light by uniformly moving charges is studied confirming the possibility of a Cherenkov-type effect. In this context, the exact radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf Lehnert , Robertus Potting

Topological semimetals have recently attracted extensive research interests as host materials to condensed matter physics counterparts of Dirac and Weyl fermions originally proposed in high energy physics. These fermions with linear…

The aim of this brief review is to present a case study of how astrophysics data can be used to get bounds on Lorentz-violating parameters. For this purpose, a particularly simple Lorentz-violating modification of the Maxwell theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-14 F. R. Klinkhamer

We consider the role of the velocity in Lorentz-violating fermionic quantum theory, especially emphasizing the nonrelativistic regime. Information about the velocity will be important for the kinematical analysis of scattering and other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Altschul , Don Colladay

This article gives a brief summary on recently obtained classical lagrangians for the nonminimal fermion sector of the Standard-Model Extension (SME). Such lagrangians are adequate descriptions of classical particles that are subject to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 M. Schreck

In a new theory, local Lorentz invariance is a low-energy symmetry which no longer holds when a fermion energy E is well above 1 TeV. Here we find that the modified E(p) relation is consistent with observation, and is in fact nearly the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. E. Allen

The issue of Lorentz fine-tuning in effective theories containing higher-order operators is studied. To this end, we focus on the Myers-Pospelov extension of QED with dimension-five operators in the photon sector and standard fermions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlos M. Reyes , Sebastian Ossandon , Camilo Reyes