https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13257-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Loop quantum gravity effects on electromagnetic properties of charged leptons
1
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, Urca, CEP 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BR 465-07, CEP 23890-971, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil
Received:
9
April
2024
Accepted:
16
August
2024
Published online:
17
September
2024
The efforts in this contribution consist in reassessing a modified Dirac equation that incorporates a 
-Lorentz-symmetry violating (LSV) term induced as a Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) effect. Originally, this equation has been applied and considered as a good scenario for describing a number of investigations on the flight time of cosmic neutrinos, which suggests that the speed, in vacuum, in connection with the geometry that describes a granular space-time, takes the energy-dependent form, e.g., 
, with 
GeV for neutrinos. Once LQG provides a viable way to understand this picture consistently, we pursue an analysis of this effective Dirac equation to inspect some of its properties. These include: the derivation of the modified fermionic propagator, attainment of the Gordon decomposition of the vector current with minimal electromagnetic coupling to obtain information on the form factors, examination of the non-relativistic limit of the equation, evaluation of the spin- and velocity-dependent corrections to the Coulomb potential due to LQG effects, and the modified Hamiltonian in the low-relativistic regime. The study of the form factors may open up paths to set up bounds on the LQG parameters from the precision measurements of electromagnetic attributes of the charged leptons, such as their respective electric and magnetic dipole moments.
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