Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillations

A general technique is presented for treating CPT violation in neutral-meson oscillations. The effective field theory for a complex scalar with CPT-violating operators of arbitrary mass dimension is incorporated in the formalism for the propagation and mixing of neutral mesons. Observable effects ar...

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Main Authors: Benjamin R. Edwards, V. Alan Kostelecký
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931930468X
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spelling doaj-ed04ebd762d9427f9dd265a730f9b1652020-11-25T00:28:02ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932019-08-01795620626Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillationsBenjamin R. Edwards0V. Alan Kostelecký1Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USACorresponding author.; Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USAA general technique is presented for treating CPT violation in neutral-meson oscillations. The effective field theory for a complex scalar with CPT-violating operators of arbitrary mass dimension is incorporated in the formalism for the propagation and mixing of neutral mesons. Observable effects are discussed, and first measurements of CPT-violating operators of dimension five are extracted from existing experimental results.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931930468X
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Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillations
Physics Letters B
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title Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillations
title_short Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillations
title_full Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillations
title_fullStr Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillations
title_full_unstemmed Searching for CPT violation with neutral-meson oscillations
title_sort searching for cpt violation with neutral-meson oscillations
publisher Elsevier
series Physics Letters B
issn 0370-2693
publishDate 2019-08-01
description A general technique is presented for treating CPT violation in neutral-meson oscillations. The effective field theory for a complex scalar with CPT-violating operators of arbitrary mass dimension is incorporated in the formalism for the propagation and mixing of neutral mesons. Observable effects are discussed, and first measurements of CPT-violating operators of dimension five are extracted from existing experimental results.
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