REVIEW 3 cited by
Monopole-Fermion Scattering and the Solution to the Semiton/Unitarity Puzzle
Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.
This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.
SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event
T0 review · schema-true
One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.
pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp
read the original abstract
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.
Forward citations
Cited by 3 Pith papers
-
Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry from Monopole-Axion Interactions
A rotating QCD axion dissipates kinetic energy via dark monopole dyon transitions, explaining dark matter and baryon asymmetry with a predicted axion decay constant below 10^9 GeV.
-
Monopole Catalyzed Baryogenesis with a $\theta$ angle
Claims that Callan-Rubakov monopole catalysis biased by a tiny theta-term can generate the observed baryon asymmetry at T~100 GeV with monopole densities below current bounds.
-
Tilts from 2-Groups
Line operators charged under the 1-form part of a 2-group symmetry must generically break the 0-form part, enforced by a family anomaly derived from Wess-Zumino consistency.
Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.