Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-09-25
Phys.Rev.D57:3932-3943,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
31 pages, published in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.3932
A theoretical analysis is performed of Penning-trap experiments testing CPT and Lorentz symmetry through measurements of anomalous magnetic moments and charge-to-mass ratios. Possible CPT and Lorentz violations arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking at a fundamental level are treated in the context of a general extension of the SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) standard model and its restriction to quantum electrodynamics. We describe signals that might appear in principle, introduce suitable figures of merit, and estimate CPT and Lorentz bounds attainable in present and future Penning-trap experiments. Experiments measuring anomaly frequencies are found to provide the sharpest tests of CPT symmetry. Bounds are attainable of approximately $10^{-20}$ in the electron-positron case and of $10^{-23}$ for a suggested experiment with protons and antiprotons. Searches for diurnal frequency variations in these experiments could also limit certain types of Lorentz violation to the level of $10^{-18}$ in the electron-positron system and others at the level of $10^{-21}$ in the proton-antiproton system. In contrast, measurements comparing cyclotron frequencies are sensitive within the present theoretical framework to different kinds of Lorentz violation that preserve CPT. Constraints could be obtained on one figure of merit in the electron-positron system at the level of $10^{-16}$, on another in the proton-antiproton system at $10^{-24}$, and on a third at $10^{-25}$ using comparisons of $H^-$ ions with antiprotons.
Bluhm Robert
Kostelecky Alan
Russell Neil
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