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John Ellis1, Nick E Mavromatos2, Tevong You3
1Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom and Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
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 excludes a range of the mass scale of a nonlinear Born-Infeld extension of QED that is ≲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)_{Y} hypercharge gauge symmetry is realized nonlinearly, the limit on the corresponding mass reach is ∼90 GeV, which, in turn, imposes a lower limit of ≳11 TeV on the magnetic monopole mass in such a U(1)_{Y} Born-Infeld theory.
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