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Test of Space-Time Non-Commutativity at the Future Circular Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-15 v1

Abstract

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is a crucial step forward to study new Physics beyond the standard model and to test fundamental aspects as space-time minimal length and Lorentz violations. As an example, a possible enhancement of e+ee^+e^- pair production due to non-commutative effects, catalyzed by the huge magnetic field produced at the beginning of a heavy ion collision at FCC, is discussed. In noncommutative electrodynamics a free photon in the magnetic background can produce a e+ee^+e^- pair. In particular for hard photons with transverse energy 100600100-600 GeV at the beginning of the collision and for a particular kinematical setting of the pair , i.e. large total transverse momentum in the reaction plane and invariant mass in the range 200400200-400 MeV, the non-commutative contribution, evaluated with the present bound of the non-commuativity fundamental area , can be significant. Other, more exotic, possible signatures of space-time non-commutativity are also considered.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05063,
  title  = {Test of Space-Time Non-Commutativity at the Future Circular Collider},
  author = {Paolo Castorina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05063},
  year   = {2017}
}