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author Moskal, Paweł
Czerwiński, Eryk
Raj, Juhi
Bass, Steven D.
Beyene, Ermias Y.
Chug, Neha
Coussat, Aurélien
Curceanu, Catalina
Dadgar, Meysam
Das, Manish
Dulski, Kamil
Gajos, Aleksander
Gorgol, Marek
Hiesmayr, Beatrix C.
Jasińska, Bożena
Kacprzak, Krzysztof
Kaplanoglu, Tevfik
Kapłon, Łukasz
Klimaszewski, Konrad
Konieczka, Paweł
Korcyl, Grzegorz
Kozik, Tomasz
Krzemień, Wojciech
Kumar, Deepak
Moyo, Simbarashe
Mryka, Wiktor
Niedźwiecki, Szymon
Parzych, Szymon
del Río, Elena Pérez
Raczyński, Lech
Sharma, Sushil
Choudhary, Shivani
Shopa, Roman Y.
Silarski, Michał
Skurzok, Magdalena
Stępień, Ewa Ł.
Tanty, Pooja
Ardebili, Faranak Tayefi
Ardebili, Keyvan Tayefi
Eliyan, Kavya Valsan
Wiślicki, Wojciech
author_facet Moskal, Paweł
Czerwiński, Eryk
Raj, Juhi
Bass, Steven D.
Beyene, Ermias Y.
Chug, Neha
Coussat, Aurélien
Curceanu, Catalina
Dadgar, Meysam
Das, Manish
Dulski, Kamil
Gajos, Aleksander
Gorgol, Marek
Hiesmayr, Beatrix C.
Jasińska, Bożena
Kacprzak, Krzysztof
Kaplanoglu, Tevfik
Kapłon, Łukasz
Klimaszewski, Konrad
Konieczka, Paweł
Korcyl, Grzegorz
Kozik, Tomasz
Krzemień, Wojciech
Kumar, Deepak
Moyo, Simbarashe
Mryka, Wiktor
Niedźwiecki, Szymon
Parzych, Szymon
del Río, Elena Pérez
Raczyński, Lech
Sharma, Sushil
Choudhary, Shivani
Shopa, Roman Y.
Silarski, Michał
Skurzok, Magdalena
Stępień, Ewa Ł.
Tanty, Pooja
Ardebili, Faranak Tayefi
Ardebili, Keyvan Tayefi
Eliyan, Kavya Valsan
Wiślicki, Wojciech
contents Discrete symmetries play an important role in particle physics with violation of CP connected to the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. We report the most precise test of P, T and CP invariance in decays of ortho-positronium, performed with methodology involving polarization of photons from these decays. Positronium, the simplest bound state of an electron and positron, is of recent interest with discrepancies reported between measured hyperfine energy structure and theory at the level of $10^{-4}$ signaling a need for better understanding of the positronium system at this level. We test discrete symmetries using photon polarizations determined via Compton scattering in the dedicated J-PET tomograph on an event-by-event basis and without the need to control the spin of the positronium with an external magnetic field, in contrast to previous experiments. Our result is consistent with QED expectations at the level of 0.0007 and one standard deviation.
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spellingShingle Discrete symmetries tested at 10$^{-4}$ precision using linear polarization of photons from positronium annihilations
Moskal, Paweł
Czerwiński, Eryk
Raj, Juhi
Bass, Steven D.
Beyene, Ermias Y.
Chug, Neha
Coussat, Aurélien
Curceanu, Catalina
Dadgar, Meysam
Das, Manish
Dulski, Kamil
Gajos, Aleksander
Gorgol, Marek
Hiesmayr, Beatrix C.
Jasińska, Bożena
Kacprzak, Krzysztof
Kaplanoglu, Tevfik
Kapłon, Łukasz
Klimaszewski, Konrad
Konieczka, Paweł
Korcyl, Grzegorz
Kozik, Tomasz
Krzemień, Wojciech
Kumar, Deepak
Moyo, Simbarashe
Mryka, Wiktor
Niedźwiecki, Szymon
Parzych, Szymon
del Río, Elena Pérez
Raczyński, Lech
Sharma, Sushil
Choudhary, Shivani
Shopa, Roman Y.
Silarski, Michał
Skurzok, Magdalena
Stępień, Ewa Ł.
Tanty, Pooja
Ardebili, Faranak Tayefi
Ardebili, Keyvan Tayefi
Eliyan, Kavya Valsan
Wiślicki, Wojciech
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Discrete symmetries play an important role in particle physics with violation of CP connected to the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. We report the most precise test of P, T and CP invariance in decays of ortho-positronium, performed with methodology involving polarization of photons from these decays. Positronium, the simplest bound state of an electron and positron, is of recent interest with discrepancies reported between measured hyperfine energy structure and theory at the level of $10^{-4}$ signaling a need for better understanding of the positronium system at this level. We test discrete symmetries using photon polarizations determined via Compton scattering in the dedicated J-PET tomograph on an event-by-event basis and without the need to control the spin of the positronium with an external magnetic field, in contrast to previous experiments. Our result is consistent with QED expectations at the level of 0.0007 and one standard deviation.
title Discrete symmetries tested at 10$^{-4}$ precision using linear polarization of photons from positronium annihilations
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12092