Derivation of a vacuum refractive index in a stringy space-time foam model
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Publication:901736
DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2008.06.029zbMATH Open1328.83063arXiv0804.3566OpenAlexW2113294687MaRDI QIDQ901736FDOQ901736
Authors: N. E. Zubov 
Publication date: 12 January 2016
Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: It has been suggested that energetic photons propagating in vacuo should experience a non-trivial refractive index due to the foamy structure of space-time induced by quantum-gravitational fluctuations. The sensitivity of recent astrophysical observations, particularly of AGN Mk501 by the MAGIC Collaboration, approaches the Planck scale for a refractive index depending linearly on the photon energy. We present here a new derivation of this quantum-gravitational vacuum refraction index, based on a stringy analogue of the interaction of a photon with internal degrees of freedom in a conventional medium. We model the space-time foam as a gas of D-particles in the bulk space-time of a higher-dimensional cosmology where the observable Universe is a D3-brane. The interaction of an open string representing a photon with a D-particle stretches and excites the string, which subsequently decays and re-emits the photon with a time delay that increases linearly with the photon energy and is related to stringy uncertainty principles. We relate this derivation to other descriptions of the quantum-gravitational refractive index in vacuo.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3566
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