CPT and Lorentz Violation in the Photon and Z-Boson Sector

Colladay, Donald; Noordmans, Jacob; Potting, Robertus

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Colladay, Donald

Noordmans, Jacob

Potting, Robertus

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Violation of CPT and Lorentz symmetry in the photon sector is described within the minimal Standard-Model Extension by a dimension-3 Chern-Simons-like operator parametrized by a four-vector parameter k(AF) that has been very tightly bounded by astrophysical observations. On the other hand, in the context of the SU (2) x U (1) electroweak gauge sector of the Standard-Model Extension, CPT and Lorentz violation is described similarly, by dimension-3 operators parametrized by four-vector parameters k(1) and k(2). In this work, we investigate in detail the effects of the resulting CPT and Lorentz violation in the photon and Z-boson sectors upon electroweak-symmetry breaking. In particular, we show that, for the photon sector, the relevant Lorentz-violating effects are described at the lowest order by the kAF term, but that there are higher-order momentum-dependent effects due to photon-Z boson mixing. As bounds on CPT and Lorentz violation in the Z sector are relatively weak, these effects could be important phenomenologically. We investigate these effects in detail in this work.