1602 — Consecutive QED EFT Orders Predict a Sub-Threshold Bell Onset
Date: 2026-08-21
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Result
The published one-loop QED Wilson coefficients were inserted into Entries 1598--1599's source-typed Bell map. With (y=s/m_e^2), the exact normalized readout formed from the dimension-ten and dimension-twelve truncated amplitudes reaches (I=2) at
Expanding and truncating the normalized observable itself at the matching EFT order gives
The dimension-twelve shift of the consistent-series onset is approximately seven percent. Every onset is far below the electron-pair threshold (y=4). Exact rational endpoint evaluations certify a sign change around each quoted root.
Thus the zero-energy QED near miss is not predicted to remain a miss at finite energy: two consecutive one-loop EFT truncations place QED inside the fixed-analyzer Bell-violating region at a sub-threshold energy.
This is not yet a theorem for the full one-loop amplitude. The sharp next falsifier is the exact Karplus--Neuman helicity function. If its normalized Bell readout has no crossing below (s=4m_e^2), the apparent EFT onset is a truncation artifact; if it does cross, the coefficient attack has recovered a genuine physical energy scale.
Evidence
- Henriksson et al., arXiv:2107.13009v3, Table 3.
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