scholarly journals Consistent QFT description of non-standard neutrino interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Falkowski ◽  
Martín González-Alonso ◽  
Zahra Tabrizi
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mechanical Approach ◽  
Theory Result ◽  
Quantum Mechanical Approach ◽  
Theory Framework

Abstract Neutrino oscillations are precision probes of new physics. Apart from neutrino masses and mixings, they are also sensitive to possible deviations of low-energy interactions between quarks and leptons from the Standard Model predictions. In this paper we develop a systematic description of such non-standard interactions (NSI) in oscillation experiments within the quantum field theory framework. We calculate the event rate and oscillation probability in the presence of general NSI, starting from the effective field theory (EFT) in which new physics modifies the flavor or Lorentz structure of charged-current interactions between leptons and quarks. We also provide the matching between the EFT Wilson coefficients and the widely used simplified quantum-mechanical approach, where new physics is encoded in a set of production and detection NSI parameters. Finally, we discuss the consistency conditions for the standard NSI approach to correctly reproduce the quantum field theory result.

scholarly journals Probing the nonunitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix at the CEPC

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (33) ◽  
pp. 1644006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Antusch ◽  
Oliver Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Performance Parameters ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mixing Matrix ◽  
Theory Framework

The nonunitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix is a generic signal of new physics aiming at the generation of the observed neutrino masses. We discuss the Minimal Unitarity Violation (MUV) scheme, an effective field theory framework which represents the class of extensions of the Standard Model (SM) by heavy neutral leptons, and discuss the present bounds on the nonunitarity parameters as well as estimates for the sensitivity of the CEPC, based on the performance parameters from the preCDR.

The Higgs impact on Einstein’s gravity: The Einstein–Kraichnan quantum gravity

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 2040012
Author(s):  
M. D. Maia ◽  
V. B. Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Higgs Mechanism ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Einstein’S Equations ◽  
Einstein's Equations ◽  
Fundamental Interactions ◽  
The Standard Model

An updated review of Kraichnan’s derivation of Einstein’s equations from quantum field theory is presented, including the period after the discovery of the Higgs mechanism and the inclusion of gravitation within the Standard Model of Fundamental Interactions.

scholarly journals Magnetic monopoles in field theory and cosmology

2012 ◽  
Vol 370 (1981) ◽  
pp. 5705-5717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arttu Rajantie
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Magnetic Monopoles ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Magnetic Systems ◽  
The Standard Model

The existence of magnetic monopoles is predicted by many theories of particle physics beyond the standard model. However, in spite of extensive searches, there is no experimental or observational sign of them. I review the role of magnetic monopoles in quantum field theory and discuss their implications for particle physics and cosmology. I also highlight their differences and similarities with monopoles found in frustrated magnetic systems.

scholarly journals Long-lived heavy neutral leptons at the LHC: four-fermion single-NR operators

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca Beltrán ◽  
Giovanna Cottin ◽  
Juan Carlos Helo ◽  
Martin Hirsch ◽  
Arsenii Titov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
High Luminosity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Model Independent

Abstract Interest in searches for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC has increased considerably in the past few years. In the minimal scenario, HNLs are produced and decay via their mixing with active neutrinos in the Standard Model (SM) spectrum. However, many SM extensions with HNLs have been discussed in the literature, which sometimes change expectations for LHC sensitivities drastically. In the NRSMEFT, one extends the SM effective field theory with operators including SM singlet fermions, which allows to study HNL phenomenology in a “model independent” way. In this paper, we study the sensitivity of ATLAS to HNLs in the NRSMEFT for four-fermion operators with a single HNL. These operators might dominate both production and decay of HNLs, and we find that new physics scales in excess of 20 TeV could be probed at the high-luminosity LHC.

scholarly journals Quantum field theory results for neutrino oscillations and new physics

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Delepine ◽  
Vannia Gonzalez Macias ◽  
Shaaban Khalil ◽  
G. Lopez Castro
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Neutrino Oscillations ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Quantum Field

scholarly journals AN APPLICATION OF NEUTRIX CALCULUS TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 297-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. JACK NG ◽  
H. VAN DAM
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Asymptotic Series ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Neutrix Calculus

Neutrices are additive groups of negligible functions that do not contain any constants except 0. Their calculus was developed by van der Corput and Hadamard in connection with asymptotic series and divergent integrals. We apply neutrix calculus to quantum field theory, obtaining finite renormalizations in the loop calculations. For renormalizable quantum field theories, we recover all the usual physically observable results. One possible advantage of the neutrix framework is that effective field theories can be accommodated. Quantum gravity theories will then appear to be more manageable.

scholarly journals Unification of gravity and quantum field theory from extended noncommutative geometry

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (05) ◽  
pp. 1750030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hefu Yu ◽  
Bo-Qiang Ma
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Gravity Field ◽  
Noncommutative Geometry ◽  
Coordinate Frame ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Gravity Effect ◽  
Frame Bundle ◽  
The Standard Model

We make biframe and quaternion extensions on the noncommutative geometry, and construct the biframe spacetime for the unification of gravity and quantum field theory (QFT). The extended geometry distinguishes between the ordinary spacetime based on the frame bundle and an extra non-coordinate spacetime based on the biframe bundle constructed by our extensions. The ordinary spacetime frame is globally flat and plays the role as the spacetime frame in which the fields of the Standard Model are defined. The non-coordinate frame is locally flat and is the gravity spacetime frame. The field defined in both frames of such “flat” biframe spacetime can be quantized and plays the role as the gravity field which couples with all the fields to connect the gravity effect with the Standard Model. Thus, we provide a geometric paradigm in which gravity and QFT can be unified.

ORIGIN OF FERMION MASSES

1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (40) ◽  
pp. 3697-3704
Author(s):  
J. W. MOFFAT
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Integral Equations ◽  
Mass Spectra ◽  
Coupling Constants ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Fermion Masses ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Baryon Mass ◽  
Nonlocal Quantum

An eigenvalue equation for the spectrum of lepton and quark is obtained from a truncated set of Tamm-Dancoff integral equations, generated by a four-fermion interaction based on a finite nonlocal quantum field theory. Eigenvalue equations for the meson and baryon mass spectra are also derived and integral equations are proposed for the scattering amplitudes, which can be used to calculate coupling constants in the nonlocal version of the standard model.

scholarly journals STRING FIELD THEORY FROM QUANTUM GRAVITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1343005
Author(s):  
LOUIS CRANE
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
String Field Theory ◽  
Neutrino Oscillations ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
Dual Model ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
The Standard Model

Recent work on neutrino oscillations suggests that the three generations of fermions in the standard model are related by representations of the finite group A(4), the group of symmetries of the tetrahedron. Motivated by this, we explore models which extend the EPRL model for quantum gravity by coupling it to a bosonic quantum field of representations of A(4). This coupling is possible because the representation category of A(4) is a module category over the representation categories used to construct the EPRL model. The vertex operators which interchange vacua in the resulting quantum field theory reproduce the bosons and fermions of the standard model, up to issues of symmetry breaking which we do not resolve. We are led to the hypothesis that physical particles in nature represent vacuum changing operators on a sea of invisible excitations which are only observable in the A(4) representation labels which govern the horizontal symmetry revealed in neutrino oscillations. The quantum field theory of the A(4) representations is just the dual model on the extended lattice of the Lie group E6, as explained by the quantum McKay correspondence of Frenkel, Jing and Wang. The coupled model can be thought of as string field theory, but propagating on a discretized quantum spacetime rather than a classical manifold.

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