Light-by-Light Scattering Constraint on Born-Infeld Theory

Abstract

The recent measurement by ATLAS of light-by-light scattering in LHC Pb-Pb collisions is the first direct evidence for this basic process. We find that it requires the mass scale of a nonlinear Born-Infeld extension of QED to be $\gtrsim 100$~GeV, a much stronger constraint than those derived previously. In the case of a Born-Infeld extension of the Standard Model in which the U(1)${}_{\mathrm{Y}}$ hypercharge gauge symmetry is realized nonlinearly, the limit on the corresponding mass scale is $\gtrsim 90$~GeV, which in turn imposes a lower limit of $\gtrsim 11$~TeV on the magnetic monopole mass in such a U(1)${}_{\mathrm{Y}}$ Born-Infeld theory.

11 pages, 4 figures, version accepted for publication in PRL

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