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New Standard Model constraints on the scales and dimension of spacetime

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 12, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2018)130

Keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity; Kaon Physics

Funding

  1. NSFC [11875113]
  2. Shanghai Municipality [KBH1512299]
  3. Fudan University [JJH1512105]
  4. I+D grants of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [FIS2014-54800-C2-2-P, FIS2017-86497-C2-2-P]

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Using known estimates for the kaon-antikaon transitions, the mean lifetime of the muon and the mean lifetime of the tau, we place new and stronger constraints on the scales of the multi-fractional theories with weighted and q-derivatives. These scenarios reproduce a quantum-gravity regime where fields live on a continuous spacetime with a scale-dependent Hausdorff dimension. In the case with weighted derivatives, constraints from the muon lifetime are various orders of magnitude stronger than those from the tau lifetime and the kaon-antikaon transitions. The characteristic energy scale of the theory cannot be greater than E-*> 3 x 10(2) TeV, and is tightened to E-*> 9 x 10(8) TeV for the typical value = 1/2 of the fractional exponents in the spacetime measure. We also find an upper bound d(H)< 2.9 on the spacetime Hausdorff dimension in the ultraviolet. In the case with q-derivatives, the strongest bound comes from the tau lifetime, but it is about 10 orders of magnitude weaker than for the theory with weighted derivatives.

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