28 January 2019 to 1 February 2019
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
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Fakeons, quantum gravity and the classical limit

29 Jan 2019, 10:50
30m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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Speaker

Damiano Anselmi

Description

A new quantization prescription is able to endow quantum field theory with a new type of "particle", the fakeon (fake particle), which mediates interactions, but cannot be observed. A massive fakeon of spin 2 (together with a scalar field) allows us to build a theory of quantum gravity that is both renormalizable and unitary, and to some extent unique. After presenting the general properties of this theory, I discuss its classical limit, which carries important remnants of the fakeon quantization prescription.

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