String-inspired ultraviolet/infrared mixing and preliminary evidence of a violation of the de Broglie relation for nonrelativistic neutrons

Details String-inspired ultraviolet/infrared mixing and preliminary evidence of a violation of the de Broglie relation for nonrelativistic neutrons String-inspired ultraviolet/infrared mixing and preliminary evidence of a violation of the de Broglie relation for nonrelativistic neutrons

2010-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/1004.3352v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Analysis unchanged; additional comments on the part of the motivation drawn from a Loop-Quantum-Gravity-inspired model; additi

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We advocate a novel perspective on the phenomenology of a framework with spacetime noncommutativity which is of established relevance for string theory. Our analysis applies to cases in which the noncommutativity parameters are arranged according to the criteria of "light-like noncommutativity" and ultraviolet supersymmetry is assumed, so that the implications of the characteristic mechanism of ultraviolet/infrared mixing are relatively soft. We also observe that an analogous case of soft ultraviolet-infrared mixing is present in a previously-proposed Loop-quantum-gravity-inspired description of quantum spacetime. And we show that soft ultraviolet-infrared mixing produces an anomaly for the nonrelativistic de Broglie relation $\lambda v = h/m$, with correction term governed by a single (but particle-dependent) parameter $\chi$. We test this hypothesis by comparing a determination of the fine structure constant that relies on the de Broglie relation for nonrelativistic neutrons to other independent determinations of the fine structure constant, and we obtain an estimate of $\chi$ that differs from 0 with four-standard-deviation significance.

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