Investigating Lorentz and CPT Symmetry with Antihydrogen

Abstract

This talk discusses theoretical aspects of tests of CPT and Lorentz Symmetry that will in principle be possible with trapped antihydrogen. The framework is the standard-model extension, which admits minuscule violations of CPT and Lorentz symmetry in a general manner without giving up other features of the standard model of particle physics. Spectroscopic transitions in hydrogen and antihydrogen that exhibit leading-order effects are identified. Such comparisons of spectral frequencies in antimatter with the corresponding frequencies in regular matter will bound parameter combinations that are not accessible with regular-matter atoms alone.