TY - JOUR
T1 - Light-by-Light Scattering Constraint on Born-Infeld Theory
AU - Ellis, John
AU - Mavromatos, Nikolaos E.
AU - You, Tevong
PY - 2017/6/30
Y1 - 2017/6/30
N2 - The recent measurement by ATLAS of light-by-light scattering in LHC Pb-Pb collisions is the first direct evidence for this basic process. We find that it excludes a range of the mass scale of a nonlinear Born-Infeld extension of QED that is 100 GeV, a much stronger constraint than those derived previously. In the case of a Born-Infeld extension of the standard model in which the U(1)Y hypercharge gauge symmetry is realized nonlinearly, the limit on the corresponding mass reach is ∼90 GeV, which, in turn, imposes a lower limit of 11 TeV on the magnetic monopole mass in such a U(1)Y Born-Infeld theory.
AB - The recent measurement by ATLAS of light-by-light scattering in LHC Pb-Pb collisions is the first direct evidence for this basic process. We find that it excludes a range of the mass scale of a nonlinear Born-Infeld extension of QED that is 100 GeV, a much stronger constraint than those derived previously. In the case of a Born-Infeld extension of the standard model in which the U(1)Y hypercharge gauge symmetry is realized nonlinearly, the limit on the corresponding mass reach is ∼90 GeV, which, in turn, imposes a lower limit of 11 TeV on the magnetic monopole mass in such a U(1)Y Born-Infeld theory.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.261802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.261802
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021757764
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 118
SP - 261802-1-261802-6
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 26
M1 - 261802
ER -