Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Planck-Length Phenomenology   This author's recent proposal of interferometric tests of
Planck-scale-related properties of space-time is here revisited from a strictly
phenomenological viewpoint. The results announced previously are rederived
using elementary dimensional considerations. The dimensional analysis is then
extended to the other two classes of experiments (observations of neutral kaons
at particle accelerators and observations of the gamma rays we detect from
distant astrophysical sources) which have been recently considered as
opportunities to explore "foamy" properties of space-time. The emerging picture
suggests that there is an objective and intuitive way to connect the
sensitivities of these three experiments with the Planck length. While in
previous studies the emphasis was always on some quantum-gravity scenario and
the analysis was always primarily aimed at showing that the chosen scenario
would leave a trace in a certain class of doable experiments, the analysis here
reported takes as starting point the experiments and, by relating in a direct
quantitative way the sensitivities to the Planck length, provides a
model-independent description of the status of Planck-length phenomenology.

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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th