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Low energy signatures of nonlocal field theories
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The response of inertial particle detectors coupled to a scalar field satisfying nonlocal dynamics described by nonanalytic functions of the d'Alembertian operator $\Box$ is studied. We show that spontaneous emission processes of a low energy particle detector are very sensitive to high-energy nonlocality scales. This allows us to suggest a nuclear physics experiment ($\sim$ MeV energy scales) that outperforms the sensitivity of LHC experiments by many orders of magnitude. This may have implications for the falsifiability of theoretical proposals of quantum gravity.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. RevTeX 4.1. This version matches the published one in PRD Rapid Communications
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1099251120
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103.PhysRevD.94.061902