Wednesday, July 24, 2013

1307.5340 (Carlos M. Reyes)

Unitarity in higher-order Lorentz-invariance violating QED    [PDF]

Carlos M. Reyes
The unitarity in Lorentz invariance violating QED consisting of standard fermions and higher-order photons of the Myers-Pospelov theory is studied. We find ghost states associated to the higher-order character of the theory which could render the $S$ matrix nonunitary. An explicit calculation to check perturbative unitarity in the process of electron-positron scattering is performed and it is found to be possible to preserve unitarity.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5340

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