Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 794, Issue -, Pages 41-44Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.025
Keywords
CPT symmetry; Quantum gravity; kappa-deformation; Particle lifetime
Funding
- COST Action [MP1405]
- Polish National Science Centre [2017/27/B/ST2/01902, 2017/26/M/ST2/00697]
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We show that deformed relativistic kinematics, expected to emerge in a flat-spacetime limit of quantum gravity, predicts different lifetimes for particles and their antiparticles. This phenomenon is a consequence of Planck-scale modifications of the action of discrete symmetries. In particular we focus on deformations of the action of CPT derived from the kappa-Poincare algebra, the most studied example of Planck-scale deformation of relativistic symmetries. Looking at lifetimes of muons and anti-muons we are able to derive an experimental bound on the deformation parameter of kappa greater than or similar to 4 x 10(14) GeV from measurements at the LHC. Such bound has the potential to reach the value of kappa greater than or similar to 2 x 10(16) GeV using measurements at the planned Future Circular Collider (FCC). (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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