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Alexandre, J.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Mitsou, V.A.; Musumeci, E. |
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Resummation schemes for high-electric-charge objects leading to improved experimental mass limits |
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2024 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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109 |
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3 |
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036026 - 20pp |
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High-electric-charge compact objects (HECOs) appear in several theoretical particle physics models beyond the Standard Model, and are actively searched for in current colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In such searches, mass bounds of these objects have been placed, using Drell-Yan and photon-fusion processes at tree level so far. However, such mass-bound estimates are not reliable, given that, as a result of the large values of the electric charge of the HECO, perturbative quantum electrodynamics calculations break down. In this work, we perform a Dyson-Schwinger resummation scheme (as opposed to lattice strong-coupling approach), which makes the computation of the pertinent HECO-production cross sections reliable, thus allowing us to extract improved mass bounds for such objects from ATLAS and MoEDAL searches. |
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[Alexandre, Jean; Mavromatos, Nick E.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: jean.alexandre@kcl.ac.uk; |
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Felea, D.; Mamuzic, J.; Maselek, R.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Mitsou, V.A.; Pinfold, J.L.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Sakurai, K.; Santra, A.; Vives, O. |
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Prospects for discovering supersymmetric long-lived particles with MoEDAL |
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2020 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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80 |
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5 |
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431 - 12pp |
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We present a study on the possibility of searching for long-lived supersymmetric partners with the MoEDAL experiment at the LHC. MoEDAL is sensitive to highly ionising objects such as magnetic monopoles or massive (meta)stable electrically charged particles. We focus on prospects of directly detecting long-lived sleptons in a phenomenologically realistic model which involves an intermediate neutral long-lived particle in the decay chain. This scenario is not yet excluded by the current data from ATLAS or CMS, and is compatible with astrophysical constraints. Using Monte Carlo simulation, we compare the sensitivities of MoEDAL versus ATLAS in scenarios where MoEDAL could provide discovery reach complementary to ATLAS and CMS, thanks to looser selection criteria combined with the virtual absence of background. It is also interesting to point out that, in such scenarios, in which charged staus are the main long-lived candidates, the relevant mass range for MoEDAL is compatible with a potential role of Supersymmetry in providing an explanation for the anomalous events observed by the ANITA detector. |
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[Felea, D.] Inst Space Sci, POB MG 23, Bucharest 077125, Magurele, Romania, Email: daniel.felea@cern.ch; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Mavromatos, N.E.; Mitsou, V.A. |
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Magnetic monopoles revisited: Models and searches at colliders and in the Cosmos |
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2020 |
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International Journal of Modern Physics A |
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Int. J. Mod. Phys. A |
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35 |
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23 |
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2030012 - 81pp |
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Magnetic monopoles; electromagnetism; theory; experimental techniques; searches; LHC; ATLAS; MoEDAL; IceCube; ANTARES |
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In this review, we discuss recent developments in both the theory and the experimental searches of magnetic monopoles in past, current and future colliders and in the Cosmos. The theoretical models include, apart from the standard Grand Unified Theories, extensions of the Standard Model that admit magnetic monopole solutions with finite energy and masses that can be as light as a few TeV. Specifically, we discuss, among other scenarios, modified Cho-Maison monopoles and magnetic monopoles in (string-inspired, higher derivative) Born-Infeld extensions of the hypercharge sector of the Standard Model. We also outline the conditions for which effective field theories describing the interaction of monopoles with photons are valid and can be used for result interpretation in monopole production at colliders. The experimental part of the review focuses on, past and present, cosmic and collider searches, including the latest bounds on monopole masses and magnetic charges by the ATLAS and MoEDAL experiments at the LHC, as well as prospects for future searches. |
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[Mavromatos, Nick E.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: nikolaos.mavromatos@kcl.ac.uk; |
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WOS:000563095400001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4516 |
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Ellis, J.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Sakharov, A.S.; Sarkisyan-Grinbaum, E.K. |
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Limits on neutrino Lorentz violation from multimessenger observations of TXS 0506+056 |
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2019 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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789 |
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352-355 |
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Lorentz violation; Multimessenger; Astrophysical neutrinos; Blazar; TXS 0506+056; IceCube |
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The observation by the IceCube Collaboration of a high-energy (E greater than or similar to 200 TeV) neutrino from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 and the coincident observations of enhanced gamma-ray emissions from the same object by MAGIC and other experiments can be used to set stringent constraints on Lorentz violation in the propagation of neutrinos that is linear in the neutrino energy: Delta v = -E/M-1, where Delta v is the deviation from the velocity of light, and M-1 is an unknown high energy scale to be constrained by experiment. Allowing for a difference in neutrino and photon propagation times of similar to 10 days, we find that M-1 greater than or similar to 3 x 10(16) GeV. This improves on previous limits on linear Lorentz violation in neutrino propagation by many orders of magnitude, and the same is true for quadratic Lorentz violation. |
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[Ellis, John; Mavromatos, Nikolaos E.] Kings Coll London, Phys Dept, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: Alexandre.Sakharov@cern.ch |
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WOS:000457165400047 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3900 |
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Ellis, J.; Konoplich, R.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Nguyen, L.; Sakharov, A.S.; Sarkisyan-Grinbaum, E.K. |
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Robust constraint on Lorentz violation using Fermi-LAT gamma-ray burst data |
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2019 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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99 |
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8 |
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083009 - 22pp |
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Models of quantum gravity suggest that the vacuum should be regarded as a medium with quantum structure that may have nontrivial effects on photon propagation, including the violation of Lorentz invariance. Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance, via studies of energy-dependent timing shifts in their rapidly varying photon emissions. We analyze the Fermi-LAT measurements of high-energy gamma rays from GRBs with known redshifts, allowing for the possibility of energy-dependent variations in emission times at the sources as well as a possible nontrivial refractive index in vacuo for photons. We use statistical estimators based on the irregularity, kurtosis, and skewness of bursts that are relatively bright in the 100 MeV to multi-GeV energy band to constrain possible dispersion effects during propagation. We find that the energy scale characterizing a linear energy dependence of the refractive index should exceed a few x10(17) GeV, and we estimate the sensitivity attainable with additional future sources to be detected by Fermi-LAT. |
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[Ellis, John; Mavromatos, Nikolaos E.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England |
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WOS:000464745800001 |
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Mavromatos, N.E.; Papavassiliou, J. |
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Singular lensing from the scattering on special space-time defects |
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2018 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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78 |
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1 |
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68 - 15pp |
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It is well known that certain special classes of self-gravitating point-like defects, such as global (non gauged) monopoles, give rise to non-asymptotically flat space-times characterized by solid angle deficits, whose size depends on the details of the underlying microscopic models. The scattering of electrically neutral particles on such space-times is described by amplitudes that exhibit resonant behaviour when thescattering and deficit angles coincide. This, in turn, leads to ring-like structures where the cross sections are formally divergent (“singular lensing”). In this work, we revisit this particular phenomenon, with the twofold purpose of placing it in a contemporary and more general context, in view of renewed interest in the theory and general phenomenology of such defects, and, more importantly, of addressing certain subtleties that appear in the particular computation that leads to the aforementioned effect. In particular, by adopting a specific regularization procedure for the formally infinite Legendre series encountered, we manage to ensure the recovery of theMinkowski space-time, and thus the disappearance of the lensing phenomenon, in the nodefect limit, and the validity of the optical theorem for the elastic total cross section. In addition, the singular nature of the phenomenon is confirmed by means of an alternative calculation, which, unlike the original approach, makes no use of the generating function of the Legendre polynomials, but rather exploits the asymptotic properties of the Fresnel integrals. |
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[Mavromatos, Nick E.; Papavassiliou, Joannis] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Theoret Phys, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: Nikolaos.Mavromatos@cern.ch |
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Bossingham, T.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Sarkar, S. |
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Leptogenesis from heavy right-handed neutrinos in CPT violating backgrounds |
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2018 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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78 |
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2 |
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113 - 33pp |
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We discuss leptogenesis in a model with heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos propagating in a constant but otherwise generic CPT-violating axial time-like background (motivated by string theory). At temperatures much higher than the temperature of the electroweak phase transition, we solve approximately, but analytically (using Pade approximants), the corresponding Boltzmann equations, which describe the generation of lepton asymmetry from the tree-level decays of heavy neutrinos into Standard Model leptons. At such temperatures these leptons are effectively massless. The current work completes in a rigorous way a preliminary treatment of the same system, by some of the present authors. In this earlier work, lepton asymmetry was crudely estimated considering the decay of a righthanded neutrino at rest. Our present analysis includes thermal momentum modes for the heavy neutrino and this leads to a total lepton asymmetry which is bigger by a factor of two as compared to the previous estimate. Nevertheless, our current and preliminary results for the freezeout are found to be in agreement (within a similar to 12.5% uncertainty). Our analysis depends on a novel use of Pade approximants to solve the Boltzmann equations and may be more widely useful in cosmology. |
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[Bossingham, Thomas; Mavromatos, Nick E.; Sarkar, Sarben] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: Nikolaos.Mavromatos@cern.ch |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Baines, S.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Mitsou, V.A.; Pinfold, J.L.; Santra, A. |
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Monopole production via photon fusion and Drell-Yan processes: MadGraph implementation and perturbativity via velocity-dependent coupling and magnetic moment as novel features |
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2018 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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78 |
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11 |
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966 - 36pp |
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In this work we consider point-like monopole production via photon-fusion and Drell-Yan processes in the framework of an effective U(1) gauge field theory obtained from conventional models describing the interaction of magnetically-charged fields with ordinary photons, upon electric-magnetic dualisation. We present arguments based on such dualities which support the conjecture of an effective monopole-velocity-dependent magnetic charge. For the cases of 1 monopoles, we also include a magnetic-moment which is treated as a new phenomenological parameter and, together with the velocity-dependent coupling, allows for a perturbative treatment of the cross-section calculation. We discuss unitarity issues within these effective field theories, in particular we point out that in the spin-1 monopole case only the may restore unitarity. However from an effective-field-theory point of view, this lack of unitarity should not be viewed as an impediment for the phenomenological studies and experimental searches of generic spin-1 monopoles, given that the potential appearance of new degrees of freedom in the ultraviolet completion of such models might restore it. The second part of the paper deals with an appropriate implementation of photon-fusion and Drell-Yan processes based on the above theoretical scenarios into MadGraph UFO models, aimed to serve as a useful tool in interpretations of monopole searches at colliders such as LHC, especially for photon fusion, given that it has not been considered by experimental collaborations so far. Moreover, the experimental implications of such perturbatively reliable monopole searches have been laid out. |
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[Baines, S.; Mavromatos, N. E.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: stephanie.baines@kcl.ac.uk; |
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Bernabeu, J.; Botella, F.J.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Nebot, M. |
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The signal of ill-defined CPT weakening entanglement in the B-d system |
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2017 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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77 |
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12 |
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865 - 10pp |
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In the presence of quantum-gravity fluctuations (space-time foam), the CPT operator may be ill-defined. Its perturbative treatment leads to a modification of the Einstein-Podolsky- Rosen correlation of the neutral meson system by adding an entanglement-weakening term of the wrong exchange symmetry, the omega-effect. In the current paper we identify how to probe the complex omega in the entangled B-d system using the flavour (f)-CP(g) eigenstate decay channels: the connection between the intensities for the two timeordered decays (f, g) and (g, f) is lost. Appropriate observables are constructed allowing independent experimental determinations of Re(omega) and Im(omega), disentangled from CPT violation in the evolution Hamiltonian Re(theta) and Im(theta). 2 sigma tensions for both Re(theta) and Im(omega) are shown to be uncorrelated. |
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[Bernabeu, Jose; Botella, Francisco J.; Mavromatos, Nick E.] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, IFIC, CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Jose.Bernabeu@uv.es; |
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WOS:000417827300005 |
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Bernabeu, J.; Mavromatos, N.E.; Villanueva-Perez, P. |
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Consistent probabilistic description of the neutral Kaon system |
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2013 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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724 |
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The neutral Kaon system has both CF violation in the mass matrix and a non-vanishing lifetime difference in the width matrix. This leads to an effective Hamiltonian which is not a normal operator, with incompatible (non-commuting) masses and widths. In the Weisskopf-Wigner Approach (WWA), by diagonalizing the entire Hamiltonian, the unphysical non-orthogonal “stationary” states K-L,K-S are obtained. These states have complex eigenvalues whose real (imaginary) part does not coincide with the eigenvalues of the mass (width). matrix. In this work we describe the system as an open Lindblad-type quantum mechanical system due to Kaon decays. This approach, in terms of density matrices for initial and final states, provides a consistent probabilistic description, avoiding the standard problems because the width matrix becomes a composite operator not included in the Hamiltonian. We consider the dominant decay channel to two pions, so that one of the Kaon states with definite lifetime becomes stable. This new approach provides results for the time dependent decay rates in agreement with those of the WWA. |
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[Bernabeu, J.; Villanueva-Perez, P.] Univ Valencia, Dept Theoret Phys, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: pablo.villanueva@uv.es |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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