Phenomenological Aspects of Lee-Wick QED
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-01-10 v2
Abstract
We study some phenomenological aspects of Lee-Wick (LW) QED. In particular, we show that LW QED implies charge dequantization and a flavor-dependent LW scale. We study the implications of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in LW QED and calculate the modified electric force and potential and use the former to reformulate the WGC in LW QED. We also calculate the photon self-energy and the Uehling potential in LW QED. We show that bounds on milli-charged particles from matter neutrality experiments and from Cavendish-type experiments set stringent limits on the LW scale of fermions and of the photon.
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@article{arxiv.2406.16699,
title = {Phenomenological Aspects of Lee-Wick QED},
author = {Fayez Abu-Ajamieh and Pratik Chattopadhyay and Marco Frasca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16699},
year = {2025}
}
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22 Pages, 5 figures