scholarly journals Constraints on antisymmetric tensor fields from Bhabha scattering

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddharth Tiwary ◽  
Rainer Dick

AbstractAntisymmetric tensor fields are a compelling prediction of string theory. This makes them an interesting target for particle physics because antisymmetric tensors may couple to electromagnetic dipole moments, thus opening a possible discovery opportunity for string theory. The strongest constraints on electromagnetic dipole couplings would arise from couplings to electrons, where these couplings would contribute to Møller and Bhabha scattering. Previous measurements of Bhabha scattering constrain the couplings to $${\tilde{M}}_e m_C>7.1\times 10^4\,{\mathrm {GeV}}^2$$ M ~ e m C > 7.1 × 10 4 GeV 2 , where $$m_C$$ m C is the mass of the antisymmetric tensor field and $${\tilde{M}}_e$$ M ~ e is an effective mass scale appearing in the electromagnetic dipole coupling.

2002 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
pp. 767-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
S V Kuzmin ◽  
D.G.C. McKeon

It is shown how vector Stueckelberg fields can be introduced to ensure gauge invariance for mass terms for an antisymmetric tensor field. Scalar Stueckelberg fields allow one to have gauge invariance for these vector fields. Both the Abelian and non-Abelian cases are considered. Fully antisymmetric rank-three tensor fields and symmetric rank-two tensor fields are also discussed. PACS No.: 11.15-1


2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (25) ◽  
pp. 4251-4270 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS CASTRO

A novel approach to evaluate the Wilson loops associated with a SU (∞) gauge theory in terms of pure string degrees of freedom is presented. It is based on the Guendelman–Nissimov–Pacheva formulation of composite antisymmetric tensor field theories of area (volume) preserving diffeomorphisms which admit p-brane solutions and which provide a new route to scale-symmetry breaking and confinement in Yang–Mills theory. The quantum effects are discussed and we evaluate the vacuum expectation values (VEV) of the Wilson loops in the large N limit of the quenched reduced SU (N) Yang–Mills theory in terms of a path integral involving pure string degrees of freedom. The quenched approximation is necessary to avoid a crumpling of the string worldsheet giving rise to very large Hausdorff dimensions as pointed out by Olesen. The approach is also consistent with the recent results based on the AdS/CFT correspondence and dual QCD models (dual Higgs model with dual Dirac strings). More general Loop wave equations in C-spaces (Clifford manifolds) are proposed in terms of generalized holographic variables that contain the dynamics of an aggregate of closed branes (p-loops) of various dimensionalities. This allows us to construct the higher-dimensional version of Wilson loops in terms of antisymmetric tensor fields of arbitrary rank which couple to p-branes of different dimensionality.


1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (11) ◽  
pp. 2145-2154
Author(s):  
DEBASHIS GANGOPADHYAY

Using the functional stochastic scheme, the gauge fixing term for linearized gravity is shown to be related to longitudinal modes within the framework of the usual set of momentum projection operators. A similar analysis is done for non-Abelian antisymmetric tensor field by replacing derivatives with covariant derivatives in all relevant equations and by constructing suitable operators for projecting out transverse and longitudinal modes.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (31) ◽  
pp. 4953-4966 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBASHIS GANGOPADHYAY ◽  
SOUMITRA SENGUPTA

We show that for a string moving in a background consisting of maximally symmetric gravity, dilaton field and second rank antisymmetric tensor field, the O(d) ⊗ O(d) transformation on the vacuum solutions gives inequivalent solutions that are not maximally symmetric. We then show that the usual physical meaning of maximal symmetry can be made to remain unaltered even if torsion is present and illustrate this through two toy models by determining the torsion fields, the metric and Killing vectors. Finally we show that under the O(d) ⊗ O(d) transformation this generalized maximal symmetry can be preserved under certain conditions. This is interesting in the context of string related cosmological backgrounds.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (30) ◽  
pp. 1950245
Author(s):  
Sudhaker Upadhyay ◽  
Mushtaq B. Shah ◽  
Prince A. Ganai

We develop a BRST symmetric gaugeon formalism for the Abelian rank-2 antisymmetric tensor field in the Lorentz-breaking framework. The Lorentz-breaking is achieved here by considering a proper subgroup of Lorentz group together with translation. In this scenario, the gaugeon fields together with the standard fields of the Abelian rank-2 antisymmetric tensor theory get mass. In order to develop the gaugeon formulation for this theory in very special relativity (VSR), we first introduce a set of dipole vector fields as a quantum gauge freedom to the action. In order to quantize the dipole vector fields, the VSR-modified gauge-fixing and corresponding ghost action are constructed as the classical action is invariant under a VSR-modified gauge transformation. Further, we present a Type I gaugeon formalism for the Abelian rank-2 antisymmetric tensor field theory in VSR. The gauge structures of Fock space constructed with the help of BRST charges are also discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Aashish ◽  
Abhilash Padhy ◽  
Sukanta Panda ◽  
Arun Rana

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichi Deguchi ◽  
Tadahito Nakajima

We consider a Yang–Mills theory in loop space with the affine gauge group. From this theory, we derive a local field theory with Yang–Mills fields and Abelian antisymmetric and symmetric tensor fields of the second rank. The Chapline–Manton coupling, i.e. coupling of Yang–Mills fields and a second-rank antisymmetric tensor field via the Chern–Simons three-form is obtained systematically.


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