Abstract
Experimental tests of Lorentz symmetry in systems of all types are critical for ensuring that the basic assumptions of physics are well founded. Data from all phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a kiloton-scale heavy water Cherenkov detector, are analyzed for possible violations of Lorentz symmetry in the neutrino sector. Such violations would appear as one of eight possible signal types in the detector: six seasonal variations in the solar electron neutrino survival probability differing in energy and time dependence and two shape changes to the oscillated solar neutrino energy spectrum. No evidence for such signals is observed, and limits on the size of such effects are established in the framework of the standard model extension, including 38 limits on previously unconstrained operators and improved limits on 16 additional operators. This makes limits on all minimal, Dirac-type Lorentz violating operators in the neutrino sector available for the first time.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 112013 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Funding
This research was supported by Canada: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Industry Canada, National Research Council, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., Ontario Power Generation, High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada Research Chairs program; US: Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Queen’s Breakthrough Fund, Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration through the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium; United Kingdom: Science and Technology Facilities Council (formerly Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council); Portugal: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. We thank the SNO technical staff for their strong contributions. We thank INCO (now Vale, Ltd.) for hosting this project in their Creighton mine.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P. | |
| National Nuclear Security Administration | |
| National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program | |
| National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center | |
| Canada Foundation for Innovation | |
| Queen’s Breakthrough Fund | |
| Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation | |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Industry Canada | |
| National Research Council | |
| Alfred P Sloan Foundation | |
| Institute for Nuclear Physics | |
| Atomic Energy of Canada Limited | |
| Science and Technology Facilities Council | ST/M00001X/1 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics