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    Constraints on Unparticles from Low Energy Neutrino-Electron Scattering

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    We place limits on scalar and vector unparticle couplings to electrons and neutrinos using data from reactor neutrino experiments originally designed to search for neutrino magnetic moment. Upper bounds on Standard Model lepton-scalar unparticle and lepton-vector unparticle couplings λ0\lambda_0, and λ1\lambda_1 are given for various values of the unparticle mass dimension d, and the unparticle energy scale ΛU\Lambda_{\cal U}. Especially for smaller values of the mass dimension d (1 <d <1.3) these bounds are very significant and comparable to those obtained from production rates at high energy colliders. These bounds are also similar to those obtained by the analysis of the absence of the decay of the low-energy solar and reactor neutrinos.Comment: 6 pages of LATEX, 3 figure

    Unparticle Searches Through Compton Scattering

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    We investigate the effects of unparticles on Compton scattering, e gamma -> e gamma based on a future e^+e^- linear collider such as the CLIC. For different polarization configurations, we calculate the lower limits of the unparticle energy scale Lambda_U for a discovery reach at the center of mass energies sqrt(s)=0.5 TeV- 3 TeV. It is shown that, especially, for smaller values of the mass dimension d, (1 <d <1.3), and for high energies and luminosities of the collider these bounds are very significant. As a stringent limit, we find Lambda_U>80 TeV for d<1.3 at sqrt(s)=3 TeV, and 1 ab^(-1) integrated luminosity per year, which is comparable with the limits calculated from other low and high energy physics implications.Comment: Table 1 and 2 have been combined as Table 1, references updated, minor typos have been correcte

    Constraints on Astro-unparticle Physics from SN 1987A

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    SN 1987A observations have been used to place constraints on the interactions between standard model particles and unparticles. In this study we calculate the energy loss from the supernovae core through scalar, pseudo scalar, vector, pseudo vector unparticle emission from nuclear bremsstrahlung for degenerate nuclear matter interacting through one pion exchange. In order to examine the constraints on dU=1d_{\cal U}=1 we considered the emission of scalar, pseudo scalar, vector, pseudo vector and tensor through the pair annihilation process e+e−→Uγe^+e^-\to {\cal U} \gamma . In addition we have re-examined other pair annihilation processes. The most stringent bounds on the dimensionless coupling constants for dU=1d_{\cal U} =1 and ΛU=mZ\Lambda_{\cal U}= m_Z are obtained from nuclear bremsstrahlung process for the pseudo scalar and pseudo-vector couplings ∣λ0,1P∣≤4×10−11\bigl|\lambda^{\cal P}_{0,1}\bigr|\leq 4\times 10^{-11} and for tensor interaction, the best limit on dimensionless coupling is obtained from e+e−→Uγe^+ e^-\to {\cal U} \gamma and we get ∣λT∣≤6×10−6\bigl|\lambda^{\cal T}\bigr| \leq 6\times 10^{-6}.Comment: 12 pages, 2 postscript figure
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