Lorentz Invariant CPT Breaking in the Dirac Equation

DOI10.1142/9789813144873_0024zbMATH Open1380.81106arXiv1607.01409OpenAlexW4240828496MaRDI QIDQ4603264FDOQ4603264

Publication date: 19 February 2018

Published in: Memorial Volume on Abdus Salam's 90th Birthday (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If one modifies the Dirac equation in momentum space to

[g a m m a^{m u} p_{m u} - m - D e l t a m (h e t a (p_{0}) - h e t a (- p_{0})) h e t a (p_{m u}^{2})] p s i (p) = 0

, the symmetry of positive and negative energy eigenvalues is lifted by

m p m D e l t a m

for a small

D e l t a m

. The mass degeneracy of the particle and antiparticle is thus lifted in a Lorentz invariant manner since the combinations

h e t a (p m p_{0}) h e t a (p_{m u}^{2})

with step functions are manifestly Lorentz invariant. We explain an explicit construction of this CPT breaking term in coordinate space, which is Lorentz invariant but non-local at a distance scale of the Planck length. The application of this Lorentz invariant CPT breaking mechanism to the possible mass splitting of the neutrino and antineutrino in the Standard Model is briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01409

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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