Testing Lorentz Invariance and CPT Conservation with NuMI Neutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector

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(MINOS Collaboration)

¹Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
²Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
³Physics Department, Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois 60532, USA
⁴Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
⁵Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁶Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
⁷Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IF-UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
⁸APC-Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, 10, rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
⁹Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
¹⁰Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
¹¹Physics Division, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA
¹²Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
¹³Physics Department, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807, USA
¹⁴Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
¹⁵University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
¹⁶Department of Physics, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA
¹⁷Subdepartment of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
¹⁸Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
¹⁹Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
²⁰Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
²¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
²²Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
²³Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
²⁴Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
²⁵Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
²⁶Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
²⁷Department of Physics, Warsaw University, Hoa 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland
²⁸Physics Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA
²⁹Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA

Received 1 July 2008; published 9 October 2008

Asearch for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS near detectorneutrino data was performed. If present, this signature could bea consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as predicted bythe effective field theory called the standard-model extension. No evidencefor a sidereal signal in the data set was found,implying that there is no significant change in neutrino propagationthat depends on the direction of the neutrino beam ina sun-centered inertial frame. Upper limits on the magnitudes ofthe Lorentz and CPT violating terms in the standard-model extensionlie between 10^-4 and 10^-2 of the maximum expected, assuminga suppression of these signatures by a factor of 10^-17.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.151601
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.151601
PACS:	11.30.Cp; 11.30.Er; 14.60.Pq 11.30.Cp Lorentz and Poincaré invariance in particles and fields 11.30.Er Charge conjugation, parity, time reversal, and other discrete symmetries in particles and fields 14.60.Pq Neutrino mass and mixing YEAR: 2008