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D. O. R. Azevedo

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The quantum electrodynamics for dyons

The quantum electrodynamics for massive fermions carrying electric and magnetic charges, the dyons, is proposed based on the 1960's seminal works by Cabibbo, Ferrari, and Salam, with the gauge group being $U(1)\times U(1)$, which is associated to a vector field (photon) and a pseudo-vector field (metaphoton), wherein the Dirac quantization is set aside. At the tree level the spectrum consistency of the model is analyzed, and all continuous and discrete symmetries are established. The quantum analysis is performed by using the Becchi-Rouet-Stora (BRS) algebraic renormalization method, which is independent on any regularization scheme. Moreover, thanks to the presence of massless gauge fields, the Lowenstein-Zimmermann (LZ) subtraction scheme is required within the framework of the Bogoliubov-Parasiuk-Hepp-Zimmermann-Lowenstein (BPHZL) renormalization procedure. Finally, it is verified that the proposed model, the dyon quantum electrodynamics (dQED), is free from any anomaly and is multiplicative renormalizable at all orders in perturbation theory, proving, therefore, its quantum consistency.

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The Euler-Heisenberg action for a $U(1)\times U(1)$ dyon quantum electrodynamics

The one-loop effective Lagrangian of quantum electrodynamics for dyons (dQED) with a $U(1) \times U(1)$ gauge symmetry is derived using the Schwinger proper-time method. We identify the analog of the Schwinger pair-production limit and compute the corresponding nonlinear equations of motion. The electromagnetic response of the model is analyzed by linearizing the equations of motion around a purely magnetic background. From the resulting plane-wave solutions, we obtain the effective permittivity and permeability tensors, along with the associated dispersion relations and refractive indices for parallel and perpendicular polarization modes. The refractive indices involve hybrid superpositions of both gauge sectors, as illustrated in the symmetric case $q_{(1)} = q_{(2)}$. In this background, the model exhibits vacuum birefringence, indicating that the quantum vacuum behaves as an anisotropic medium. All results consistently reduce to the standard Euler-Heisenberg predictions of QED when the magnetic charge vanishes.

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Bell-CHSH inequality and unitary transformations in Quantum Field Theory

Unitary transformations are employed to enhance the violations of the Bell-CHSH inequality in relativistic Quantum Field Theory. The case of the scalar field in $1+1$ Minkowski space-time is scrutinized by relying on the Tomita-Takesaki modular theory. The example of the bounded Hermitian operator $sign(φ(f))$, where $φ(f)$ stands for the smeared scalar field, is worked out. It is shown that unitary deformations enable for violations of the Bell-CHSH inequality. The setup is generalized to the Proca vector field by means of its equivalence with the scalar theory.

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Contributions to $Z^0$ decays from a X17 extension of the Standard Model

The present work proposes a Born-Infeld contribution to the $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of the Standard Model, where it is introduced associated to the X17 neutral boson. The decay width of the $Z^0$ decay into 3$X$ and 3$γ$ processes are computed, based on NA64 and ATLAS experiments data.

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The BPHZL renormalization of a planar quantum electrodynamics up to 2-loops and beyond

The renormalization of a parity-even massless $U(1)\times U(1)$ quantum electrodynamics in three space-time dimensions (QED$_3$) is studied by adopting the Bogoliubov-Parasiuk-Hepp-Zimmermann-Lowenstein (BPHZL) renormalization method. The presence of two massless fermions requires the Lowenstein-Zimmermann (LZ) subtraction scheme to renormalize the infrared divergences induced by the ultraviolet subtractions at 1- and 2-loops, moreover due to the model superrenormalizability the ultraviolet divergences are bounded up to 2-loops. Finally, through the BPHZL renormalization method together with the LZ subtraction scheme the ultraviolet and infrared finiteness of the model is proved up to 2-loops and beyond.

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Is there any Nambu monopolium out there?

Magnetic monopoles have been a subject of study for more than a century since the first ideas by A. Vaschy and P. Curie, circa 1890. In 1974, Y. Nambu proposed a model for magnetic monopoles exploring a parallelism between the broken symmetry Higgs and the superconductivity Ginzburg-Landau theories in order to describe the pions quark-antiquark confinement states. There, Nambu describes an energetic string where its end points behave like two magnetic monopoles with opposite magnetic charges -- quark and antiquark. Consequently, not only the interaction among monopole and antimonopole, mediated by a massive vector boson (Yukawa potential), but also the energetic string (linear potential) contributes to the effective interaction potential. We propose here a monopole-antimonopole non confining attractive interaction of the Nambu-type, and then investigate the formation of bound states, the monopolium. Some necessary conditions for the existence of bound states to be fulfilled by the proposed Nambu-type potential, Kato weakness, Setô and Bargmann conditions, are verified. In the following, ground state energies are estimated for a variety of monopolium reduced mass, from $10^2$MeV to $10^2$TeV, and Compton interaction lengths, from $10^{-2}$am to $10^{-1}$pm, where discussion about non relativistic and relativistic limits validation is carried out.

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