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Test of Lorentz invariance with atmospheric neutrinos

K. Abe^1,29, Y. Haga¹, Y. Hayato^1,29, M. Ikeda¹, K. Iyogi¹, J. Kameda^1,29, Y. Kishimoto^1,29, M. Miura^1,29, S. Moriyama^1,29 et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

S. Moriyama^1,29, M. Nakahata^1,29, Y. Nakano¹, S. Nakayama^1,29, H. Sekiya^1,29, M. Shiozawa^1,29, Y. Suzuki^1,29, A. Takeda^1,29, H. Tanaka¹, T. Tomura^1,29, K. Ueno¹, R. A. Wendell^1,29, T. Yokozawa¹, T. Irvine², T. Kajita^2,29, I. Kametani², K. Kaneyuki^2,29,*, K. P. Lee², T. McLachlan², Y. Nishimura², E. Richard², K. Okumura^2,29, L. Labarga³, P. Fernandez³, J. Gustafson⁴, E. Kearns^4,29, J. L. Raaf⁴, J. L. Stone^4,29, L. R. Sulak⁴, S. Berkman⁵, H. A. Tanaka⁵, S. Tobayama⁵, M. Goldhaber^6,*, G. Carminati⁷, W. R. Kropp⁷, S. Mine⁷, P. Weatherly⁷, A. Renshaw⁷, M. B. Smy^7,29, H. W. Sobel^7,29, V. Takhistov⁷, K. S. Ganezer⁸, B. L. Hartfiel⁸, J. Hill⁸, W. E. Keig⁸, N. Hong⁹, J. Y. Kim⁹, I. T. Lim⁹, T. Akiri¹⁰, A. Himmel¹⁰, K. Scholberg^10,29, C. W. Walter^10,29, T. Wongjirad¹⁰, T. Ishizuka¹¹, S. Tasaka¹², J. S. Jang¹³, J. G. Learned¹⁴, S. Matsuno¹⁴, S. N. Smith¹⁴, T. Hasegawa¹⁵, T. Ishida¹⁵, T. Ishii¹⁵, T. Kobayashi¹⁵, T. Nakadaira¹⁵, K. Nakamura^15,29, Y. Oyama¹⁵, K. Sakashita¹⁵, T. Sekiguchi¹⁵, T. Tsukamoto¹⁵, A. T. Suzuki¹⁶, Y. Takeuchi¹⁶, C. Bronner¹⁷, S. Hirota¹⁷, K. Huang¹⁷, K. Ieki¹⁷, T. Kikawa¹⁷, A. Minamino¹⁷, A. Murakami¹⁷, T. Nakaya^17,29, K. Suzuki¹⁷, S. Takahashi¹⁷, K. Tateishi¹⁷, Y. Fukuda¹⁸, K. Choi¹⁹, Y. Itow¹⁹, G. Mitsuka¹⁹, P. Mijakowski³⁴, J. Hignight²⁰, J. Imber²⁰, C. K. Jung²⁰, C. Yanagisawa²⁰, H. Ishino²¹, A. Kibayashi²¹, Y. Koshio²¹, T. Mori²¹, M. Sakuda²¹, R. Yamaguchi²¹, T. Yano²¹, Y. Kuno²², R. Tacik^23,31, S. B. Kim²⁴, H. Okazawa²⁵, Y. Choi²⁶, K. Nishijima²⁷, M. Koshiba²⁸, Y. Suda²⁸, Y. Totsuka^28,*, M. Yokoyama^28,29, K. Martens²⁹, Ll. Marti²⁹, M. R. Vagins^29,7, J. F. Martin³⁰, P. de Perio³⁰, A. Konaka³¹, M. J. Wilking³¹, S. Chen³², Y. Zhang³², K. Connolly³³, and R. J. Wilkes³³ (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

¹Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
²Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
³Department of Theoretical Physics, University Autonoma Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
⁴Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
⁵Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T1Z4, Canada
⁶Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
⁷Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
⁸Department of Physics, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
⁹Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757, Korea
¹⁰Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
¹¹Junior College, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan
¹²Department of Physics, Gifu University, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
¹³GIST College, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 500-712, Korea
¹⁴Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
¹⁵High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
¹⁶Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
¹⁷Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
¹⁸Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845, Japan
¹⁹Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
²⁰Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
²¹Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
²²Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
²³Department of Physics, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, Saskatchewan S4SOA2, Canada
²⁴Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
²⁵Department of Informatics in Social Welfare, Shizuoka University of Welfare, Yaizu, Shizuoka 425-8611, Japan
²⁶Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
²⁷Department of Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
²⁸The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
²⁹Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
³⁰Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S1A7, Canada
³¹TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
³²Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
³³Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA
³⁴National Centre For Nuclear Research, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland

^*Deceased.

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Phys. Rev. D 91, 052003 – Published 3 March, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.052003

Abstract

A search for neutrino oscillations induced by Lorentz violation has been performed using 4,438 live-days of Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino data. The Lorentz violation is included in addition to standard three-flavor oscillations using the nonperturbative standard model extension (SME), allowing the use of the full range of neutrino path lengths, ranging from 15 to 12,800 km, and energies ranging from 100 MeV to more than 100 TeV in the search. No evidence of Lorentz violation was observed, so limits are set on the renormalizable isotropic SME coefficients in the $e μ$ , $μ τ$ , and $e τ$ sectors, improving the existing limits by up to 7 orders of magnitude and setting limits for the first time in the neutrino $μ τ$ sector of the SME.

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Neutrino Test of Lorentz Invariance

Published 3 March, 2015

Oscillations in atmospheric neutrinos show no sign of violating a fundamental principle of relativity.

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