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We introduce a new version of non-linear electrodynamics which is produced by a spontaneous symmetry breaking of Lorentz invariance induced by the non-zero expectation value of the electromagnetic field strength. The symmetry breaking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jorge Alfaro , Luis F. Urrutia

In this article, we provide analytical expressions for the photon polarization tensor in pulsed Hermite- and Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams. Our results are based on a locally constant field approximation of the one-loop Heisenberg-Euler…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-06 Felix Karbstein , Elena A. Mosman

We examine one of the standard loci for studying electromagnetic wave emission -- the radiation from an oscillating electric dipole -- in a model in which the electromagnetic sector is modified to include novel CPT- and Lorentz-violating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Joshua O'Connor , Brett Altschul

The QED vacuum polarization in external monochromatic plane-wave electromagnetic fields is calculated with spatial and temporal variations of the external fields being taken into account. We develop a perturbation theory to calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-06 Akihiro Yatabe , Shoichi Yamada

The effect of static electromagnetic fields on the propagation of light is analyzed in the context of a particular class of scalar-tensor gravitational theories. It is found that for appropriate field configurations and light polarization,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-10 T. E. Raptis , F. O. Minotti

The classification of Lorentz- and CPT-violating operators in nonabelian gauge field theories is performed. We construct all gauge-invariant terms describing propagation and interaction in the action for fermions and gauge fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Alan Kostelecky , Zonghao Li

We consider the gravitational correction to (electronic) vacuum polarization in the presence of a gravitational background field. The Dirac propagators for the virtual fermions are modified to include the leading gravitational correction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-19 U. D. Jentschura

A Lorentz violating modification of massless QED is proposed, with higher order space derivatives for the photon field. The fermion dynamical mass generation is studied with the Schwinger-Dyson approach. Perturbative properties of the model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-11 Jean Alexandre , Ariadni Vergou

Remnant low-energy effects of Planck-scale Lorentz breaking in candidate fundamental theories typically include modified one-particle dispersion relations. Theoretical constraints on such modifications are discussed leading to the exclusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Ralf Lehnert

We propose a minimal extension to the Standard Model by introducing a Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) term into the Z boson's dispersion relation, expressed as $p_\mu p^\mu = M_Z^2 + \delta_{LIV} (p_\mu n^\mu)^2$, where $\delta_{LIV}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Juansher Jejelava , Zurab Kepuladze

We consider an extended QED with the addition of a dimension-five Lorentz-breaking coupling between spinor and gauge fields, involving a pseudo-tensor $\kappa^{\mu\nu\lambda\rho}$. The specific form of the Lorentz violating coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-02 A. J. G. Carvalho , A. F. Ferrari , A. M. de Lima , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov

To probe the nonlinear effects of photon-photon interaction in the quantum electrodynamics, we study the generation of circular polarized photons by the collision of two linearly polarized laser beams. In the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Iman Motie , She-Sheng Xue

A hadronic vacuum polarization correction to the photon propagator is found by using the Dubnicka-Meshcheryakov parameterization of the pion electromagnetic form factor and new experimental data on the $e^+e^-$ hadrons annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-30 V. P. Gerdt , A. Karimkhodzhaev , R. N. Faustov

The interpretation of neutrino oscillation data has led to the question whether, in principle, an antiparticle like antineutrino can have a different mass than its particle. In the framework of a Lorentz invariant CPT violation, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Masud Chaichian , Kazuo Fujikawa , Anca Tureanu

In this work we show how to construct the one-loop vacuum polarization for light-front QED$_{4}$ in the framework of the perturbative causal theory. Usually, in the canonical approach, it is considered for the fermionic propagator the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-27 R. Bufalo , B. M. Pimentel , D. E. Soto

Circularly polarized colliding laser pulses can create abundant electron-positron pair plasma [A. R. Bell and J. G. Kirk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200403 (2008)], which scattering the incoming electromagnetic waves can prevent them from…

We study the effects of the electromagnetic vacuum on the motion of a nonrelativistic electron. First, we derive the equation of motion for the expectation value of the electron's position operator. We show how this equation has the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Anirudh Gundhi , Angelo Bassi

Lorentz invariance violations (LIV) can yield vacuum birefringence, which results in an energy-dependent rotation of the polarization vector of linearly polarized emission from astrophysical sources. It is believed that if the relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-10 Jun-Jie Wei

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is a proposed phenomenon where Lorentz symmetry is violated at high energies, potentially affecting particle dynamics and interactions. We use numerical simulations with the CRPropa framework to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-24 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista

Lorentz Invariance Violation introduced as a generic modification to particle dispersion relations is used to study high energy cosmic ray attenuation processes. It is shown to reproduce the same physical effects for vacuum Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-09 H. Martínez-Huerta , A. Pérez-Lorenzana