Feasibility Study of the Time Reversal Symmetry Tests in Decay of Metastable Positronium Atoms with the J-PET Detector
Author(s) -
A. Gajos,
C. Curceanu,
E. Czerwiński,
K. Dulski,
M. Gorgol,
N. Gupta-Sharma,
Beatrix C. Hiesmayr,
B. Jasińska,
K. Kacprzak,
Ł. Kapłon,
D. Kisielewska,
G. Korcyl,
P. Kowalski,
T. Kozik,
W. Krzemień,
E. Kubicz,
M. Mohammed,
Sz. Niedźwiecki,
M. Pałka,
M. Pawlik-Niedźwiecka,
L. Raczyński,
J. Raj,
Z. Rudy,
S. Sharma,
Shivani Shivani,
R. Y. Shopa,
M. Silarski,
M. Skurzok,
W. Wiślicki,
B. Zgardzińska,
M. Zieliński,
P. Moskal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
advances in high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1687-7365
pISSN - 1687-7357
DOI - 10.1155/2018/8271280
Subject(s) - positronium , metastability , physics , observable , detector , symmetry (geometry) , algorithm , nuclear physics , computer science , quantum mechanics , optics , positron , geometry , mathematics , electron
This article reports on the feasibility of testing of the symmetry under reversal in time in a purely leptonic system constituted by positronium atoms using the J-PET detector. The present state of T symmetry tests is discussed with an emphasis on the scarcely explored sector of leptonic systems. Two possible strategies of searching for manifestations of T violation in non-vanishing angular correlations of final state observables in the decays of metastable triplet states of positronium available with J-PET are proposed and discussed. Results of a pilot measurement with J-PET and assessment of its performance in reconstruction of three-photon decays are shown along with an analysis of its impact on the sensitivity of the detector for the determination of T -violation sensitive observables.
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