PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 431 - 8th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE2022) - High-intensity frontier
Improved test of CPT invariance in ortho-positronium decays at J-PET
N. Chug*, A. Gajos  on behalf of the J-PET Collaboration
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Pre-published on: January 31, 2024
Published on: February 01, 2024
Abstract
Symmetry violation under the combined transformation of charge (C), parity (P), and time reversal (T) in the charged leptonic sector can be sought through the non-vanishing expectation value of certain angular correlation operators that are odd under the CPT transformation. Here, we discuss the experimental approach for a CPT symmetry test by measuring angular correlations between the spin and momenta of photons originating from ortho-positronium (o-Ps$\rightarrow$3${\gamma}$) decays. This experiment is performed with the J-PET detector which measures a broad range of kinematical configurations of ortho-positronium annihilation into three photons and is the first experiment to determine the full range of the CPT-odd angular correlation.
A novel technique to estimate the spin of ortho-positronium and momenta of annihilation photons for a single recorded ortho-positronium event allowed J-PET to measure the expectation value of CPT symmetry odd angular correlation operator at the precision level of 10$^{-4}$, a factor of three better than the previous best result. There are new measures and perspectives for J-PET in improving the sensitivity to CPT violating effects beyond the level of 10$^{-4}$ by increasing the efficiency for detection of photons from ortho-positronium decays by means of using a new modular J-PET detector and spherical annihilation chamber.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.431.0064
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