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TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for violation of Lorentz invariance in top quark pair production and decay
AU - Collaboration, D0
AU - Bertram, Iain
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Ross, Anthony
AU - Williams, Mark
AU - Ratoff, Peter
N1 - © 2012 American Physical Society 7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
PY - 2012/6/27
Y1 - 2012/6/27
N2 - Using data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, corresponding to 5.3 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, we search for violation of Lorentz invariance by examining the \ttbar production cross section in lepton+jets final states. We quantify this violation using the standard-model extension framework, which predicts a dependence of the \ttbar production cross section on sidereal time as the orientation of the detector changes with the rotation of the Earth. Within this framework, we measure components of the matrices $(c_Q)_{\mu\nu 33}$ and $(c_U)_{\mu\nu 33}$ containing coefficients used to parametrize violation of Lorentz invariance in the top quark sector. Within uncertainties, these coefficients are found to be consistent with zero.
AB - Using data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, corresponding to 5.3 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, we search for violation of Lorentz invariance by examining the \ttbar production cross section in lepton+jets final states. We quantify this violation using the standard-model extension framework, which predicts a dependence of the \ttbar production cross section on sidereal time as the orientation of the detector changes with the rotation of the Earth. Within this framework, we measure components of the matrices $(c_Q)_{\mu\nu 33}$ and $(c_U)_{\mu\nu 33}$ containing coefficients used to parametrize violation of Lorentz invariance in the top quark sector. Within uncertainties, these coefficients are found to be consistent with zero.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.261603
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.261603
M3 - Journal article
VL - 108
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 26
M1 - 261603
ER -