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Putting non Point-like Behavior of Fundamental Particles to Test

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We review the experimental limits on those hypothetical interactions where the fundamental particles could exhibit non point-like behavior. In particular we have focused on the QED reaction measuring the differential cross sections for the process \EEGG \EEGG at energies around 91 GeV and 209 GeV with data collected from the L3 detector from 1991 to 2001. With a global fit L3 set lower limits at 95 95 % CL on a contact interaction energy scale parameter Λ>1.6\Lambda > 1.6 TeV, which restricts the characteristic QED size of the interaction region to Re<1.2×1017 R_{e} < 1.2 \times 10^{-17} cm. All the interaction regions are found to be smaller than the Compton wavelength of the fundamental particles. This constraint we use to estimate a lower limit on the internal density of particle-like structure with the de Sitter vacuum core. Some applications of obtained limits to the string and quantum gravity scales are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111302,
  title  = {Putting non Point-like Behavior of Fundamental Particles to Test},
  author = {Irina Dymnikova and Alexander Sakharov and Juergen Ulbricht and Jiawei Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111302},
  year   = {2007}
}

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18 pages, 6 figures, Completely updated version