Monopole-Fermion Scattering and the Solution to the Semiton/Unitarity Puzzle

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Autori principali: Loladze, Vazha, Okui, Takemichi
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author Loladze, Vazha
Okui, Takemichi
author_facet Loladze, Vazha
Okui, Takemichi
contents We study Polchinski's "fermion-rotor system" as an accurate description of charged Weyl fermions scattering on a magnetic monopole core in the limit of zero gauge coupling. Traditionally it was thought such scattering could lead to fractional particle numbers ("semitons"). By direct calculations we show those semitonic processes are in fact free propagation, facilitated by composite fermion-rotor operators interpolating the "forbidden" states, effectively "recovering" both ingoing and outgoing states in every lowest partial wave. Non-semitonic Callan-Rubakov processes are unchanged.
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spellingShingle Monopole-Fermion Scattering and the Solution to the Semiton/Unitarity Puzzle
Loladze, Vazha
Okui, Takemichi
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We study Polchinski's "fermion-rotor system" as an accurate description of charged Weyl fermions scattering on a magnetic monopole core in the limit of zero gauge coupling. Traditionally it was thought such scattering could lead to fractional particle numbers ("semitons"). By direct calculations we show those semitonic processes are in fact free propagation, facilitated by composite fermion-rotor operators interpolating the "forbidden" states, effectively "recovering" both ingoing and outgoing states in every lowest partial wave. Non-semitonic Callan-Rubakov processes are unchanged.
title Monopole-Fermion Scattering and the Solution to the Semiton/Unitarity Puzzle
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04577