Unparticle physics

DOI10.1142/S0217751X1004886XzbMATH Open1184.81161arXivhep-ph/0703260OpenAlexW4243319531MaRDI QIDQ3553644FDOQ3553644

Authors: H. Georgi 

Publication date: 21 April 2010

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I discuss some simple aspects of the low-energy physics of a nontrivial scale invariant sector of an effective field theory -- physics that cannot be described in terms of particles. I argue that it is important to take seriously the possibility that the unparticle stuff described by such a theory might actually exist in our world. I suggest a scenario in which some details of the production of unparticle stuff can be calculated. I find that in the appropriate low energy limit, unparticle stuff with scale dimension $d_{mathcalU}$ looks like a non-integral number $d_{mathcalU}$ of invisible particles. Thus dramatic evidence for a nontrivial scale invariant sector could show up experimentally in missing energy distributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0703260

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35)

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