Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 131603 (2008) [4 pages]Unparticle Example in 2DReceived 27 July 2008; published 25 September 2008 We discuss what can be learned about unparticle physics by studying simple quantum field theories in one space and one time dimension. We argue that the exactly soluble 2D theory of a massless fermion coupled to a massive vector boson, the Sommerfield model, is an interesting analog of a Banks-Zaks model, approaching a free theory at high energies and a scale-invariant theory with nontrivial anomalous dimensions at low energies. We construct a toy standard model coupling to the fermions in the Sommerfield model and study how the transition from unparticle behavior at low energies to free particle behavior at high energies manifests itself in interactions with the toy standard model particles. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.131603
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.131603
PACS:
11.15.Tk, 11.10.Kk, 14.80.−j
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