Mar 2 – 6, 2026
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Monopole unitarity puzzle -- Disenchanted

Mar 4, 2026, 2:30 PM
30m
Maskawa Hall (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Maskawa Hall

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan

Speaker

Masataka Watanabe (U. Tokyo)

Description

In QED coupled to four or more Dirac fermions, the scattering of fermions off a target monopole is exotic; the out state is not in the Fock space one started with. In the s-wave reduced version of the problem, I will describe how one would measure such an out state.

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