Lorentz violation and deep inelastic scattering

V. Alan Kostelecký; E. Lunghi; A.R. Vieira

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.03.047

Physics Letters B (Jun 2017)

Lorentz violation and deep inelastic scattering

V. Alan Kostelecký,
E. Lunghi,
A.R. Vieira

Affiliations

V. Alan Kostelecký: Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
E. Lunghi: Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
A.R. Vieira: Indiana University Center for Spacetime Symmetries, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.03.047
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 769, no. C
pp. 272 – 280

Abstract

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The effects of quark-sector Lorentz violation on deep inelastic electron–proton scattering are studied. We show that existing data can be used to establish first constraints on numerous coefficients for Lorentz violation in the quark sector at an estimated sensitivity of parts in a million.

Published in Physics Letters B

ISSN: 0370-2693 (Print); 1873-2445 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/physics-letters-b

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