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I study constraints on fundamental physics emerging from consistency of a unitary, local and perturbative $S$-matrix in $4d$. For massless particles, some new constraints arising from consistent complex factorisation of $2\rightarrow 2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Timothy Trott

In this work, we focus on some properties of the parity-even sector of the CPT-even electrodynamics of the standard model extension. We analyze how the six non-birefringent terms belonging to this sector modify the static and stationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-18 Rodolfo Casana , Manoel M. Ferreira , A. R. Gomes , Paulo R. D. Pinheiro

In this work, building up on [1] we present momentum space Ward identities related to broken higher spin symmetry as an alternate approach to computing correlators of spinning operators in interacting theories such as the quasi-fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Sachin Jain , Renjan Rajan John , Vinay Malvimat

We investigate $\eta/s$ in linear scalar fields modified Gauss-Bonnet theory that breaks translation invariance. We first calculate $\eta/s$ both analytically and numerically and show its relationship with temperature in log-log plot. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-28 Yi-Li Wang , Xian-Hui Ge

We calculate the parity-nonconserving longitudinal asymmetry in the elastic $\vec{p} p$ scattering at the energies where experimental data are available. In addition to the standard one-meson exchange weak potential, the variation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 C. H. Hyun , C. -P. Liu , B. Desplanques

In this short note we present the dynamics of a general scalar-tensor model, and in particular a scalar Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet model with a non-minimal coupling between gravity and the kinetic term of the scalar field. For the sake of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Fotis Fronimos

We study the analytical structure of the fermion propagator in planar quantum electrodynamics coupled to a Chern-Simons term within a four-component spinor formalism. The dynamical generation of parity-preserving and parity-violating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Christoph P. Hofmann , Alfredo Raya , Saúl Sánchez Madrigal

In these proceedings we briefly review the basic concepts underlying indirect bounds on the Wilson coefficients of some Standard Model dimension-6 operators, relevant to electroweak and Higgs observables, obtained via renormalization group…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-16 David Marzocca

We present results for two-body observables that are sensitive to the parity-violating component of nucleon-nucleon interactions. These interactions are studied using an effective field theory in which the only dynamic degrees of freedom…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-20 Matthias R. Schindler

In this note we discuss the relation between the constraints imposed by causality in the bulk of $AdS$ and the condition of positivity of the energy measured in ideal calorimeters in a collider experiment in the dual CFT. We first extend…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Diego M. Hofman

In this paper we study both projective and non-projective constraints on four-dimensional gravitational effective fields theories implied from unitarity, causality and crossing, assuming perturbative UV completions in $M_{\rm pl}$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-16 Li-Yuan Chiang , Yu-tin Huang , Wei Li , Laurentiu Rodina , He-Chen Weng

The radiative induction of the CPT and Lorentz violating Chern-Simons (CS) term is reassessed. The massless and massive models are studied. Special attention is given to the preservation of gauge symmetry at higher orders in the background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. P. Baeta Scarpelli , Marcos Sampaio , M. C. Nemes , B. Hiller

The longitudinal quasielastic parity-violating electron scattering response is explored within the context of a model that builds antisymmetrized RPA-HF correlations on a relativistic Fermi gas basis. The large sensitivity to nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 M. B. Barbaro , A. De Pace , T. W. Donnelly , A. Molinari

The consistency of the EFT of two interacting spin-2 fields is checked by applying forward limit positivity bounds on the scattering amplitudes to exclude the region of parameter space devoid of a standard UV completion. We focus on two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Lasma Alberte , Claudia de Rham , Arshia Momeni , Justinas Rumbutis , Andrew J. Tolley

The behaviour of a relativistic scalar particle in a possible scenario that arises from the violation of the Lorentz symmetry is investigated. The background of the Lorentz symmetry violation is defined by a tensor field that governs the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-02 K. Bakke , H. Belich

We consider gravitational waves (GWs) in generic parity-violating gravity including recently proposed ghost-free theories with parity violation as well as Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity, and study the implications of observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Atsushi Nishizawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi

We employ the $Z$-vector method in the four-component relativistic coupled-cluster framework to calculate the parity (${\mathcal{P}}$) and time-reversal (${\mathcal{T}}$) symmetry violating scalar-pseudoscalar (S-PS) nucleus-electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Kaushik Talukdar , Malaya K. Nayak , Nayana Vaval , Sourav Pal

Effective field theories describing gravity coupled to matter are investigated, allowing for operators of arbitrary mass dimension. Terms violating local Lorentz and diffeomorphism invariance while preserving internal gauge symmetries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Alan Kostelecky , Zonghao Li

We study 2-to-2 scattering amplitudes of massless spin one particles in $d=4$ space-time dimensions, like real world photons. We define a set of non-perturbative observables (Wilson coefficients) which describe these amplitudes at low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-25 Kelian Häring , Aditya Hebbar , Denis Karateev , Marco Meineri , João Penedones

I review recent progress and developments in parity-violating electron scattering as it bears on three topics: strange quarks and hadron structure, electroweak radiative corrections, and physics beyond the Standard Model. I also discuss…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Ramsey-Musolf