Spectroscopy instead of scattering: particle experimentation in AdS spacetime
arXiv:1812.07132
Abstract
Particle experiments are difficult at weak coupling because interactions are rare and a huge number of collision attempts are needed to attain significant precision. One often hears that "one Higgs boson is produced in a billion of collisions at LHC." In this essay, we fantasize about possible advantages afforded in this regard by performing experiments in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime instead of a usual collider in a nearly-flat spacetime. Being a perfectly resonant cavity, the AdS spacetime enhances all nonlinear interactions, which therefore produce effects of order one no matter how small the couplings are, provided that one waits long enough. These effects are encoded in spectroscopic data, namely, the fine splittings of the energy levels which would have been highly degenerate in AdS if no interactions were present. Over long times, such energy shifts let different components of wavefunctions drift completely out-of-phase, producing large effects for arbitrarily small interactions.
arXiv commentan essay for the proceedings of HEPMAD18
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