SSP2012 - 5th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics

W. Heil(1), F. Allendinger(3), C. Gemmel(1), S. Karpuk(1), Yu.Sobolev(1) , K.Tullney(1), M.Burghoff(2), W. Kilian(2), S.Knappe-Grüneberg(2), W.Müller(2), A.Schnabel(2), F.Seifert(2), L.Trahms(2), and U.Schmidt(3) 1Institut für Physik, 55099 Mainz, Germany 2Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, 10587 Berlin, Germany 3University of Heidelberg, Germany We discuss the design and performance...

Lorentz and CPT invariance are among the symmetries that can be investigated with ultrahigh precision in subatomic physics. Being spacetime symmetries, Lorentz and CPT invariance can be violated by minuscule amounts in many theoretical approaches to underlying physics that involve novel spacetime concepts, such as quantized versions of gravity. Regardless of the underlying mechanism, the...