First Test of Lorentz Violation with a Reactor-based Antineutrino Experiment
Double Chooz Collaboration: Y. Abe, C. Aberle, J. C. dos Anjos, M., Bergevin, A. Bernstein, T. J. C. Bezerra, L. Bezrukhov, E. Blucher, N. S., Bowden, C. Buck, J. Busenitz, A. Cabrera, E. Caden, L. Camilleri, R. Carr, M., Cerrada, P.-J. Chang, P. Chimenti, T. Classen
TL;DR
This paper reports the first test of Lorentz invariance using a reactor-based antineutrino experiment, finding no sidereal variation and setting new limits on Lorentz violating coefficients.
Contribution
It introduces the first analysis of Lorentz violation with reactor antineutrinos and provides the first limits on specific SME coefficients.
Findings
No sidereal variation detected in the data.
Set the first limits on 14 Lorentz violating coefficients.
Established competitive limits on 2 SME coefficients.
Abstract
We present a search for Lorentz violation with 8249 candidate electron antineutrino events taken by the Double Chooz experiment in 227.9 live days of running. This analysis, featuring a search for a sidereal time dependence of the events, is the first test of Lorentz invariance using a reactor-based antineutrino source. No sidereal variation is present in the data and the disappearance results are consistent with sidereal time independent oscillations. Under the Standard-Model Extension (SME), we set the first limits on fourteen Lorentz violating coefficients associated with transitions between electron and tau flavor, and set two competitive limits associated with transitions between electron and muon flavor.
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