Twin Peaks: A possible signal in the production of resonances beyond special relativity

TL;DR

This paper explores low-energy modifications to special relativity within deformed relativistic theories, predicting a novel twin-peak resonance signal that could be tested in high-energy collider experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a new phenomenological effect of twin peaks in resonance production due to modifications of special relativity, constrained by LEP data and relevant for future colliders.

Findings

Identified twin-peak resonance signatures in modified relativistic kinematics.

Placed TeV-scale constraints on the scale of deviations from special relativity.

Suggested potential observability of effects in future high-energy colliders.

Abstract

It is usually expected that quantum gravity corrections will modify somehow the symmetries of special relativity. In this paper we point out that the possibility of very low-energy (with respect to the Planck energy) modifications to special relativity in the framework of a deformed relativistic theory is not ruled out, and that, depending on the value of that scale, such a possibility could be tested in accelerator physics. In particular, we take a simple example of a relativistic kinematics beyond special relativity from the literature, and obtain a remarkable effect: two correlated peaks ("twin peaks") associated to a single resonance. We analyze this phenomenology in detail, use LEP data to put constraints of the order of TeV on the scale of corrections to special relativity, and note that such an effect might be observable in a future very high-energy proton collider.