CPT Symmetry and Its Breaking in the Chiral Fermion Formalism

Abstract

In this paper, we review the fundamental aspects of $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity (SUGRA) and employ the chiral formalism to describe spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ fermions. Armed with this, we analyze the discrete symmetries of the graviton in the context of linearized gravity (LG) and Rarita-Schwinger (RS) fields, which include the description of the gravitino. Additionally, we highlight the advantages of the chiral formalism in classifying Lorentz and CPT-violating terms in RS theories, extending these models by including Lorentz-violating operators, as has been done in LG.

17 pages, 0 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review D