Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with the MINOS far detector

P Adamson; D J Auty; D S Ayres; C Backhouse; G Barr; W L Barrett; M Bishai; A Blake; G J Bock; D J Boehnlein; D Bogert; C Bower; S Budd; S Cavanaugh; D Cherdack; S Childress; B C Choudhary; J A B Coelho; J H Cobb; S J Coleman; L Corwin; J P Cravens; D Cronin-Hennessy; I Z Danko; J K de Jong; N E Devenish; M V Diwan; M Dorman; C O Escobar; J J Evans; E Falk; G J Feldman; M V Frohne; H R Gallagher; R A Gomes; M C Goodman; P Gouffon; R Gran; N Grant; K Grzelak; A Habig; D Harris; P G Harris; J Hartnell; R Hatcher; A Himmel; A Holin; X Huang; J Hylen; J Ilic; G M Irwin; Z Isvan; D E Jaffe; C James; D Jensen; T Kafka; S M S Kasahara; G Koizumi; S Kopp; M Kordosky; Z Krahn; A Kreymer; K Lang; G Lefeuvre; J Ling; P J Litchfield; L Loiacono; P Lucas; W A Mann; M L Marshak; N Mayer; A M McGowan; R Mehdiyev; J R Meier; M D Messier; D G Michael; J L Miller; W H Miller; S R Mishra; J Mitchell; C D Moore; L Mualem; S Mufson; J Musser; D Naples; J K Nelson; H B Newman; R J Nichol; W P Oliver; M Orchanian; J Paley; R B Patterson; T Patzak; G Pawloski; G F Pearce; R Pittam; R K Plunkett; J Ratchford; T M Raufer; B Rebel; P A Rodrigues; C Rosenfeld; H A Rubin; V A Ryabov; M C Sanchez; N Saoulidou; J Schneps; P Schreiner; V K Semenov; P Shanahan; W Smart; A Sousa; M Strait; N Tagg; R L Talaga; J Thomas; M A Thomson; G Tinti; R Toner; G Tzanakos; J Urheim; P Vahle; B Viren; A Weber; R C Webb; C White; L Whitehead; S G Wojcicki; D M Wright; T Yang; M Zois; R Zwaska; MINOS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.151601

Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with the MINOS far detector

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Oct 8;105(15):151601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.151601. Epub 2010 Oct 4.

Authors

P Adamson¹, D J Auty, D S Ayres, C Backhouse, G Barr, W L Barrett, M Bishai, A Blake, G J Bock, D J Boehnlein, D Bogert, C Bower, S Budd, S Cavanaugh, D Cherdack, S Childress, B C Choudhary, J A B Coelho, J H Cobb, S J Coleman, L Corwin, J P Cravens, D Cronin-Hennessy, I Z Danko, J K de Jong, N E Devenish, M V Diwan, M Dorman, C O Escobar, J J Evans, E Falk, G J Feldman, M V Frohne, H R Gallagher, R A Gomes, M C Goodman, P Gouffon, R Gran, N Grant, K Grzelak, A Habig, D Harris, P G Harris, J Hartnell, R Hatcher, A Himmel, A Holin, X Huang, J Hylen, J Ilic, G M Irwin, Z Isvan, D E Jaffe, C James, D Jensen, T Kafka, S M S Kasahara, G Koizumi, S Kopp, M Kordosky, Z Krahn, A Kreymer, K Lang, G Lefeuvre, J Ling, P J Litchfield, L Loiacono, P Lucas, W A Mann, M L Marshak, N Mayer, A M McGowan, R Mehdiyev, J R Meier, M D Messier, D G Michael, J L Miller, W H Miller, S R Mishra, J Mitchell, C D Moore, L Mualem, S Mufson, J Musser, D Naples, J K Nelson, H B Newman, R J Nichol, W P Oliver, M Orchanian, J Paley, R B Patterson, T Patzak, G Pawloski, G F Pearce, R Pittam, R K Plunkett, J Ratchford, T M Raufer, B Rebel, P A Rodrigues, C Rosenfeld, H A Rubin, V A Ryabov, M C Sanchez, N Saoulidou, J Schneps, P Schreiner, V K Semenov, P Shanahan, W Smart, A Sousa, M Strait, N Tagg, R L Talaga, J Thomas, M A Thomson, G Tinti, R Toner, G Tzanakos, J Urheim, P Vahle, B Viren, A Weber, R C Webb, C White, L Whitehead, S G Wojcicki, D M Wright, T Yang, M Zois, R Zwaska; MINOS Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.

PMID: 21230890
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.151601

Abstract

We searched for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS far detector neutrino rate. Such a signal would be a consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as described by the standard-model extension framework. It also would be the first detection of a perturbative effect to conventional neutrino mass oscillations. We found no evidence for this sidereal signature, and the upper limits placed on the magnitudes of the Lorentz and CPT violating coefficients describing the theory are an improvement by factors of 20-510 over the current best limits found by using the MINOS near detector.