First test of Lorentz violation with a reactor-based antineutrino experiment
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Author(s)
Conrad, Janet
Jones, Christopher LaDon
Katori, Teppei
Spitz, Joshua B.
Terao, Kazuhiro
Winslow, L.
Date Issued
December 2012
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Abe, Y. et al. “First Test of Lorentz Violation with a Reactor-based Antineutrino Experiment.” Physical Review D 86.11 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We present a search for Lorentz violation with 8249 candidate electron antineutrino events taken by the Double Chooz experiment in 227.9 live days of running. This analysis, featuring a search for a sidereal time dependence of the events, is the first test of Lorentz invariance using a reactor-based antineutrino source. No sidereal variation is present in the data and the disappearance results are consistent with sidereal time independent oscillations. Under the Standard-Model Extension, we set the first limits on 14 Lorentz violating coefficients associated with transitions between electron and tau flavor, and set two competitive limits associated with transitions between electron and muon flavor.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.112009
