CPT-violating neutrino oscillations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a simple phenomenological model with Lorentz symmetry breaking that predicts CPT violation in neutrino oscillations, explaining anomalies observed in MiniBooNE data with a single high-energy scale parameter.

Contribution

It presents a novel CPT-violating neutrino oscillation model that accounts for experimental anomalies using only one Lorentz violation parameter.

Findings

Explains the excess of low-energy u_e-like events in MiniBooNE.

Accounts for the absence of excess in ar{ u}_e-like events.

Predicts specific physical signatures in neutrino oscillations.

Abstract

We propose a simple phenomenological model predicting, through Lorentz symmetry breaking, a CPT-violating asymmetry between particle and antiparticle states in neutrino oscillations involving sterile neutrinos. Such a model is able to explain the apparently observed anomalous excess of low-energy \nu_e-like events, reported by the MiniBooNE collaboration, as well as the non-observation of the corresponding anomalous excess of \ov{\nu}_e-like events. The present model leads to very specific physical predictions in the neutrino oscillations scenario, and account for the observed anomalies in terms of only one CPT-Lorentz violation parameter of the order of the Grand-Unification energy scale.