Patterns of Lepton-Flavour Violation Motivated by Decoupling and Sneutrino Inflation
Patterns of Lepton-Flavour Violation Motivated by Decoupling and Sneutrino Inflation
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解耦和中微子膨胀引起的轻子味破坏模式
DOI:
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.05.001
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发表时间:
2004
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影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
K. Turzyński
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作者:
P. Chankowski;J. Ellis;S. Pokorski;M. Raidal;K. Turzyński
The cosmological constant problem is usually considered an inevitable feature of any effective theory capturing well-tested gravitational and matter physics, without regard to the details of short-distance gravitational couplings. In this paper, a subtle effective description avoiding the problem is presented in a first quantized language, consistent with experiments and the Equivalence Principle. First quantization allows a minimal domain of validity to be carved out by cutting on the proper length of particle worldlines. This is facilitated by working in (locally) Euclidean spacetime, although considerations of unitarity are still addressed by analytic continuation from Lorentzian spacetime. The new effective description demonstrates that the cosmological constant problem is sensitive to short-distance details of gravity, which can be probed experimentally. “Fat Gravity” toy models are presented, illustrating how gravity might shut off at short but testable distances, in a generally covariant manner that suppresses the cosmological constant. This paper improves on previous work by allowing generalizations to massless matter, non-trivial spins, non-perturbative phenomena, and multiple (metastable) vacua.
影响因子:
8.7
作者:
Bennett, CL;Halpern, M;Weiland, JL
通讯作者:
Weiland, JL