Lorentz violating kinematics: threshold theorems

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2012)087MaRDI QIDQ2340704zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Valentina Baccetti, Kyle Tate, Matt Visser

Publication date 20 April 2015

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6340

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelglobal symmetriesneutrino physicsspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Abstract: Recent tentative experimental indications, and the subsequent theoretical speculations, regarding possible violations of Lorentz invariance have attracted a vast amount of attention. An important technical issue that considerably complicates detailed calculations in any such scenario, is that once one violates Lorentz invariance the analysis of thresholds in both scattering and decay processes becomes extremely subtle, with many new and naively unexpected effects. In the current article we develop several extremely general threshold theorems that depend only on the existence of some energy momentum relation E(p), eschewing even assumptions of isotropy or monotonicity. We shall argue that there are physically interesting situations where such a level of generality is called for, and that existing (partial) results in the literature make unnecessary technical assumptions. Even in this most general of settings, we show that at threshold all final state particles move with the same 3-velocity, while initial state particles must have 3-velocities parallel/anti-parallel to the final state particles. In contrast the various 3-momenta can behave in a complicated and counter-intuitive manner.

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