Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 041601 (2007) [4 pages]Falsifying Models of New Physics via WW ScatteringReceived 2 October 2006; published 22 January 2007 We show that the coefficients of operators in the electroweak chiral Lagrangian can be bounded if the underlying theory obeys the usual assumptions of Lorentz invariance, analyticity, unitarity, and crossing to arbitrarily short distances. Violations of these bounds can be explained by either the existence of new physics below the naive cutoff of the effective theory, or by the breakdown of one of these assumptions in the short distance theory. As a corollary, if no light resonances are found, then a measured violation of the bound would falsify generic models of string theory. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.041601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.041601
PACS:
12.15.Ji, 11.25.Wx, 11.55.−m, 12.60.Fr
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