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Mixing dynamics of dimension-five interactions (scalar/pseudoscalar-photon) in magnetized medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-18 v1

Abstract

In many extentions of standard model, dimension-5 scalar di-photon (gγγϕϕg_{\gamma\gamma\phi}\phi FμνFμνF^{\mu\nu}F_{\mu\nu} ) or pseudoscalar di-photon (gγγaaF~μνFμνg_{\gamma\gamma a}a\tilde{F}^{\mu\nu} F_{\mu\nu} , ) interaction materializes due to scale symmetry breaking or UA(1)U_A(1) symmetry breaking. In a magnetized vacuum (i.e., in an external background field Fˉμν\bar{F}_{\mu\nu} ) the transverse degrees of freedom of the photons-- for such systems-- can be described in terms of the form factors constructed out of the background field strength tensor (Fˉμν\bar{F}_{\mu\nu} ) and the same for dynamical photon (fμνf^{\mu\nu}); they happen to be Fˉμνfμν\bar{F}_{\mu\nu}f^{\mu\nu} and Fˉ~μνfμν{\tilde{\bar{F}}_{\mu\nu}f^{\mu\nu}}. These form factors transform differently under CP transformation. While Fˉμνfμν\bar{F}_{\mu\nu}f^{\mu\nu} (describing polarization orthogonal to B (γ>|\gamma_{||} >)) is CP even, the other one, Fˉ~μνfμν{\tilde{\bar{F}}_{\mu\nu}f^{\mu\nu}}( describing polarization along B (γ>|\gamma_\bot >), is CP odd. In the interaction Lagrangian, if the scalar is interchanged with the pseudoscalar, the role of the two form factors just gets interchanged. Thus for nearly degenerate strengths of the coupling constants ( gγγϕg_{\gamma\gamma\phi} and gγγag_{\gamma\gamma _a} ) and masses (mϕm_\phi and mam_a ) of the respective candidates, proper identification of one from the other may become very difficult in laboratory or astrophysics based experiments. The basic motivation of this investigation is to reduce this uncertainty through incorporation of parity violating ({\it originating through magnetized medium effects }) part of the photon self-energy in the effective Lagrangian. This step, in turn affects the (Pseudo) Scalar Photon mixing dynamics drastically and brings out a significant change in the spectrum of the electromagnetic beam undergoing such interaction.

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@article{arxiv.1907.00565,
  title  = {Mixing dynamics of dimension-five interactions (scalar/pseudoscalar-photon) in magnetized medium},
  author = {Ankur Chaubey and Manoj K. Jaiswal and Avijit K. Ganguly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00565},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, Conference Proceeding for XXIII DAE High Energy Physics Symposium(2018)