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Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2254 - 2257 (1999)

CPT and Lorentz Tests in Hydrogen and Antihydrogen

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Robert Bluhm1, V. Alan Kostelecký2, and Neil Russell2
1Physics Department, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901
2Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405

Received 20 July 1998

Signals for CPT and Lorentz violation at the Planck scale may arise in hydrogen and antihydrogen spectroscopy. We show that certain 1S-2S and hyperfine transitions can exhibit theoretically detectable effects unsuppressed by any power of the fine-structure constant.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v82/p2254
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2254
PACS: 11.30.Er, 12.20.Fv, 32.10.Fn, 32.80.Pj

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