Bounds on cubic Lorentz-violating terms in the fermionic dispersion relation

O. Bertolami and J. G. Rosa
Phys. Rev. D 71, 097901 – Published 16 May 2005

Abstract

We study the recently proposed Lorentz-violating dispersion relation for fermions and show that it leads to two distinct cubic operators in the momentum. We compute the leading order terms that modify the nonrelativistic equations of motion and use experimental results for the hyperfine transition in the ground state of the B9e+ ion to bound the values of the Lorentz-violating parameters η1 and η2 for neutrons. The resulting bounds depend on the value of the Lorenz-violating background four-vector in the laboratory frame.

  • Received 20 December 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.097901

©2005 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

O. Bertolami* and J. G. Rosa

  • Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

  • *Email address: orfeu@cosmos.ist.utl.pt
  • Email address: joaopedrotgr@sapo.pt

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Vol. 71, Iss. 9 — 1 May 2005

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