Luis A Anchordoqui 2007 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 60 191 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/60/1/039
Luis A Anchordoqui
Show affiliationsMotivated by recent interest in TeV-scale gravity and especially by the possibility of fast baryon decay mediated by virtual black holes, we study another dangerous aspect of spacetime foam interactions: lepton flavor violation. We correlate existing limits on gravity- induced decoherence in the neutrino sector with a lower bound on the scale of quantum gravity, and find that if spacetime foam interactions do not allow an S-matrix description the UV cutoff is well beyond the electroweak scale. This suggests that string theory provides the appropriate framework for description of quantum gravity at the TeV-scale.
04.70.Dy Quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics
04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure
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Luis A Anchordoqui 2007 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 60 191
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