Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-03-07
Phys.Lett.B679:407-413,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
RevTex4, 10 pages, 3 eps.figures incorporated, amended discussion on Lorentz symmetry (section I), and on gamma-ray phenomenol
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.062
Using standard techniques in string/D-brane scattering amplitude computations, we evaluate the scattering of open strings off D-particles in brane world scenarios. The D-particles are viewed as D3 branes wrapped up around three cycles, and their embedding in brane worlds constitutes a case of intersecting branes, among which strings are stretched, representing various types of excitations of the Standard Model (SM) particles in the low-energy limit. Our analysis, reveals interesting and novel selection rules for the resulting causal time delays, proportional to the energy of the incident matter state, from the processes of splitting, capture and re-emission of the latter by the D-particles. In particular, we show that there are relatively large time delays only for excitations that belong to the Cartan subalgebra of the SM gauge group, which notably includes photons. We discuss the possible relevance of these results to the models of space time foam predicting a non-trivial vacuum refractive index for photons and the associated cosmic \gamma-ray phenomenology. In particular, we demonstrate how low-string-scale models can be falsified already in this context, by current astrophysical observations of cosmic photons, and how such observations serve as a way to discriminate low- from high-string scale models.
Li Tiancheng
Mavromatos Nick E.
Nanopoulos Dimitri V.
Xie Dan
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