Tree-level unitarity, causality and higher-order Lorentz and CPT violation
arXiv:2206.05784 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.095006
Abstract
Higher-order effects of CPT and Lorentz violation within the SME effective framework including Myers-Pospelov dimension-five operator terms are studied. The model is canonically quantized by giving special attention to the arising of indefinite-metric states or ghosts in an indefinite Fock space. As is well-known, without a perturbative treatment that avoids the propagation of ghost modes or any other approximation, one has to face the question of whether unitarity and microcausality are preserved. In this work, we study both possible issues. We found that microcausality is preserved due to the cancellation of residues occurring in pairs or conjugate pairs when they become complex. Also, by using the Lee-Wick prescription, we prove that the matrix can be defined as perturbatively unitary for tree-level processes with an internal fermion line.
arXiv comment19 pages, 2 figures
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