A note on Infraparticles and Unparticles
@article{Schroer2008ANO, title={A note on Infraparticles and Unparticles}, author={Bert Schroer}, journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory}, year={2008} }
The observed astrophysical phenomenon of dark matter has generated new interest in the problem of whether the principles underlying QFT are consistent with invisibility/inertness of energy-momentum carrying "stuff" as e.g. "unparticles". We show that the 2-dim. model which has been used to illustrate the meaning of unparticles belongs to the class of former infraparticles models and the latter are known to describe electrically charged particles in d=1+3 which despite their nonlocality are our…
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