Matter Phenomenology in Quantum Gravity  

Particle Properties and Propagation > s.a. effects on photons; hadrons [proton decay]; modified lorentz symmetry; neutrino; neutron.
* Idea: Quantum spacetime fluctuations affect light and particle propagation, masses, and possibly other properties, and some effects can be seen as a violation of Lorentz symmetry; relative corrections are typically of order (fund/)2.
* History: First proposal of modified dispersion relations may have been the 1971 paper by Kirzhnits & Chechin about the absence of a GZK cutoff in the UHECR spectrum.
@ General references: Salam in(75); Hawking et al PLB(79), NPB(80) [propagation in spacetime foam]; Toon CQG(97)ht/96; Dalvit et al PRD(01)ht/00 [1-loop corrections to electromagnetism]; Urrutia LNP(06)hp/05; Lehnert AIP(07)gq [and standard model extension]; Bonder & Sudarsky CQG(08)-a0709 [without Lorentz violation, effective Hamiltonian].
@ Scalar: Lemoine et al PRD(02)ht/01 [short-scale Tab].
@ Dispersion relations: Kirzhnits & Chechin SJNP(71); Alfaro et al PRL(00)gq/99, PRD(02)ht [neutrinos]; Jacobson et al PRD(02)hp/01; Myers & Pospelov PRL(03)hp, gq/04-in; Amelino-Camelia et al PRD(04)gq, IJMPD(04)ht/05 [and black-hole entropy]; Bojowald et al PRD(05)gq/04 [and Lorentz invariance]; Girelli et al CQG(07)gq/06 [from renormalization group]; Biesiada & Piorkowska JCAP(07) [importance of cosmological model]; Jacob & Piran JCAP(08)-a0712 [cosmological time-of-flight]; Rinaldi a0711-in [rev]; Amelino-Camelia et al PRL(09)-a0911 [cold-atom-recoil experiments]; > s.a. Chandrasekhar Limit; finsler geometry; klein-gordon fields.
@ Gyromagnetic ratio: Harbach et al PLB(04), Lambiase & Papini gq/04 [muon g – 2].
@ Other properties: Montesinos CQG(97)gq [fermion mass gap]; Rosales gq/97 [finite bare charge]; Sidharth qp/98-in [spin]; Spaans ht/98 [masses]; Kirillov JETP(99)ht; Konopka & Major NJP(02)hp; Urrutia MPLA(02)gq-in; Aloisio et al APP(03)ap [decays]; Pérez & Sudarsky PRL(03)gq, GRG(05); Arteaga et al PRD(04)gq/03 [scalar particle in thermal graviton background]; Alfaro PRD(05) [hadrons]; Nouicer JPA(07) [electron magnetic properties]; Toms PRD(07)-a0708 [charge renormalization]; Frampton CQG(09)-a0808 [proton decay].
@ Cosmic rays: Alfaro & Palma PRD(02)ht/01 [lqg and GZK limit]; Aloisio et al APP(03)ap/02, ap/02-in; Amelino-Camelia ap/02-in; Alfaro & Palma PRD(03)ht/02, ht/05-in [lqg and GZK limit]; Jankiewicz et al APP(04)hp/03 [and spacetime foam]; Aloisio et al ap/04-in.
@ Matter-antimatter asymmetry: Ahluwalia & Kirchbach IJMPD(01)ap; Lambiase & Singh PLB(03)gq.
@ Neutrinos, mixing: Ahluwalia & Burgard PRD(98); Eichler PLB(99)ap/98; Lambiase MPLA(03) [MSW effect].
@ Neutrinos, oscillations: Lisi et al PRL(00)hp; Adler PRD(00)hp; Brustein et al PRD(02)hp/01, Lambiase MPLA(03)gq; Christian PRD(05)gq/04; Alexandre et al PRD(08)-a0712 [in stochastic spacetime foam]; Mavromatos et al PRD(08)-a0801 [and decoherence].
@ Neutrinos, other: Ellis et al GRG(00)gq/99; Klapdor-Kleingrothaus et al EPJA(00)hp [CPT, quantum mechanics]; Shiokawa PRD(00)ht [stochastic spacetime]; Amelino-Camelia et al JCAP(04)hp/03 [Bahcall-Waxman bound].
@ Related topics: Page PLB(80) [particle transmutations]; Alfaro ht/05 [regularization]; Singh CQG(05)gq [short-scale equation of state]; Piazza ht/05 [recovering position from matter dynamics]; Kirilin NPB(05) [corrections to spin effects]; Bilson-Thompson et al CQG(07)ht/06 [standard model particles]; Ralph PRA(07)-a0708 [unitarity]; Kowalski-Glikman & Starodubtsev PRD(08)-a0808 [effective kinematics]; > s.a. equivalence principle; green functions; non-commutative geometry; semiclassical quantum gravity; spacetime foam.

Particle Interactions and High-Energy Physics > s.a. modified newtonian gravity.
@ Interactions, scattering: de Souza ht/95 [modified em from discreteness]; Spaans ht/98, gq/99 [topological]; Modesto & Rovelli PRL(05)gq [n-point functions, lqg]; Butt PRD(06)gq [corrections to QED scattering]; > s.a. scattering.
@ Colliders: Hewett PRL(99) [Kaluza-Klein]; Giudice et al NPB(99), NPB(02); Ghosh et al MPLA(00) [branes and e].
@ Hep: Demichev et al PLB(94); Banks & Fischler ht/99; Ellis et al PRD(01)ht/00 [string model]; Amelino-Camelia PLB(02)gq/01; Han & Willenbrock PLB(05)hp/04 [radiative corrections]; Feng et al GRG(04)ht-GRF [supersymmetric particles].
@ Hep and TeV-scale quantum gravity: Dvali IJTP(00); Choudhury et al PLB(02) [ZZ]; Mathews et al NPB(05) [QCD, corrections to Drell-Yan processes]; > s.a. black-hole formation; renormalization of quantum gravity [UV fixed point].

Other Effects > s.a. [quantum gravity and phenomenology]; higher-dimensional gravity; kaluza-klein theory; modified lorentz symmetry.
@ Decoherence: Hawking in(84) [due to virtual black holes]; Gambini & Pullin MPLA(97)gq [and back-reaction]; Whelan PRD(98)gq/96 [of gravitational modes]; Hawking & Ross PRD(97)ht [scattering off black holes]; Gambini et al CQG(04)gq/03 [discrete quantum gravity]; Kok & Yurtsever PRD(03)gq [spacetime fluctuations]; Simon & Jaksch PRA(04)qp [observability]; Anchordoqui et al PRD(05)hp [neutrinos, IceCube]; Gambini et al GRG(07)gq/06, IJMPD(06)gq [from real clocks and measurements]; Wang et al CQG(06)gq [space experiment proposal]; Mavromatos & Sarkar PRD(06)hp [flavor sector]; Anastopoulos & Hu JPCS(07)gq [issues and critiques]; Mavromatos PoS-a0707, a0906 [and CPT, stringy model]; Breuer et al CQG(09)-a0812; Maziashvili APP(09)-a0901 [for light]; Sarkar JPCS(09)-a0904 [models]; Bonifacio a0906-PhD [from conformal fluctuations]; > s.a. collapse of the wave function; minisuperspace; topology change and models [wormholes].
@ Uncertainty principle: Padmanabhan CQG(86); Mirza & Zarei a0901 [minimal momentum uncertainty]; > s.a. modified uncertainty relations.
@ Other quantum mechanics effects: Penrose in(82); Mottola PRD(86) [particle creation as fluctuation-dissipation]; Diósi PLA(87); Anandan GRG(94); Hartle gq/95-in; Percival PRS(95)qp; Amelino-Camelia MPLA(98)gq; Power PRS(99), Nozari & Mehdipour GRG(05)qp [on wave packets]; Ahluwalia PLA(00)gq, gq/00-in [equivalence, wave-particle]; Jongejan qp/00 [curved spacetime as hidden variable]; Markopoulou & Smolin PRD(04)gq/03; Salzman & Carlip gq/06 [effective non-linear quantum mechanics]; Gambini & Pullin a0801-in [spacetime and undecidability]; Bonifacio et al CQG(09)-a0903 [dephasing]; Göklü et al CQG(09)-a0808 [classical fluctuations and wave-packet spreading].
@ On quantum field theory: Magnon CQG(88) [infrared divergences]; Carmona & Cortes PRD(02)ht/00 [cutoffs]; Bahns et al CMP(03) [uv finite form]; Dowker et al MPLA(04)gq/03 [Lorentz-invariant diffusion]; Freidel et al PRD(05)ht/05 [torsion and parity violation].
@ Atom interferometry: Percival pw(97)mar, & Strunz PRS(97)qp; Power & Percival PRS(00)qp/98; Peters et al Nat(99) + pn(99)sep; Ng IJMPD(02)gq-GRF.
@ Nucleons: Carlson & Carone PLB(01) [low-scale quantum gravity and decay]; Frank et al PLB(04)nt/03 [n scattering]; > n interferometry.
@ Nuclear physics: Sudarsky et al PRL(02)gq, PRD(03)gq/02 [fermions]; Dotti & Gleiser PRD(03)gq; Bojowald et al a0710 [lqg and nucleosynthesis].
@ Larger scales: Onofrio & Viola MPLA(97)qp; Lindner & Peres PRA(05) [gravitational field of BEC]; Ghosh et al PRA(06)qp/05 [molecular state evolution]; Magueijo PRD(06)gq [systems with bulk energy EP]; Castellanos & Camacho a0810 [critical points in bosonic gas]; Maziashvili & Silagadze a0812 [hydrogen atom and harmonic oscillator].
@ Gravitational collapse: Modesto IJTP(08)gq/06; Kowalski-Glikman & Starodubtsev gq/06 [and perturbation theory]; > s.a. 3D quantum gravity.
> Related topics: see 3D quantum gravity; black-hole phenomenology; gravitational collapse; correlations; Covariance; CP violation; CPT; dirac fields; early-universe cosmology [baryogenesis]; particle statistics; torsion in physical theories.


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