Is the physical vacuum a preferred frame ?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
It is generally assumed that the physical vacuum of particle physics should be characterized by an energy momentum tensor in such a way to preserve exact Lorentz invariance. On the other hand, if the ground state were characterized by its energy-momentum vector, with zero spatial momentum and a non-zero energy, the vacuum would represent a preferred frame. Since both theoretical approaches have their own good motivations, we propose an experimental test to decide between the two scenarios.
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@article{arxiv.0709.4101,
title = {Is the physical vacuum a preferred frame ?},
author = {M. Consoli and E. Costanzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4101},
year = {2008}
}
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