23 research outputs found
Photon-propagation model with random background field: Length scales and Cherenkov limits
We present improved experimental bounds on typical length scales of a
photon-propagation model with a frozen (time-independent) random background
field, which could result from anomalous effects of a static, multiply
connected spacetime foam.Comment: 6 pages with revtex4; v3: final versio
Lorentz-noninvariant neutrino oscillations: model and predictions
We present a three-parameter neutrino-oscillation model for three flavors of
massless neutrinos with Fermi-point splitting and tri-maximal mixing angles.
One of these parameters is the T-violating phase \epsilon, for which the
experimental results from K2K and KamLAND appear to favor a nonzero value. In
this article, we give further model predictions for neutrino oscillations.
Upcoming experiments will be able to test this simple model and the general
idea of Fermi-point splitting. Possible implications for proposed experiments
and neutrino factories are also discussed.Comment: 22 pages, v5: final version to appear in IJMP
Possible energy-dependence of Theta_13 in neutrino oscillations
A simple three-flavor neutrino-oscillation model is discussed which has both
nonzero mass differences and timelike Fermi-point splittings, together with a
combined bi-maximal and trimaximal mixing pattern. One possible consequence
would be new effects in \nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{e} oscillations, characterized by an
energy-dependent effective mixing angle \Theta_{13}. Future experiments such as
T2K and NOvA, and perhaps even the current MINOS experiment, could look for
these effects.Comment: 15 pages with revtex4; title changed in journa
New Type of Traversable Wormhole
We review a new traversable-wormhole solution of the gravitational field
equation of general relativity without exotic matter. Instead of having exotic
matter to keep the wormhole throat open, the solution relies on a 3-dimensional
"spacetime defect," which is characterized by a locally vanishing metric
determinant. We also discuss the corresponding multiple-vacuum-defect-wormhole
solution and possible experimental signatures from a "gas" of vacuum-defect
wormholes. Multiple vacuum-defect wormholes appear to allow for backward time
travel.Comment: Invited paper at Bahamas Advanced Study Institute & Conferences
(BASIC), February 8-14, 2023, Stella Maris, Long Island, Bahamas. v2: final
version to appear in Bulg. J. Phy
Sphalerons, spectral flow, and anomalies
The topology of configuration space may be responsible in part for the
existence of sphalerons. Here, sphalerons are defined to be static but unstable
finite-energy solutions of the classical field equations. Another manifestation
of the nontrivial topology of configuration space is the phenomenon of spectral
flow for the eigenvalues of the Dirac Hamiltonian. The spectral flow, in turn,
is related to the possible existence of anomalies. In this review, the
interconnection of these topics is illustrated for three particular sphalerons
of SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory.Comment: 35 pages with revtex4; invited paper for the August special issue of
JMP on "Integrability, topological solitons and beyond