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Bulk Majorons at Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v2

Abstract

Lepton number violation may arise via the spontaneous breakdown of a global symmetry. In extra dimensions, spontaneous lepton number violation in the bulk implies the existence of a Goldstone boson, the majoron J^(0), as well as an accompanying tower of Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations, J^(n). Even if the zero-mode majoron is very weakly interacting, so that detection in low-energy processes is difficult, the sum over the tower of KK modes may partially compensate in processes of relevance at high-energy colliders. Here we consider the inclusive differential and total cross sections for e^- e^- --> W^- W^- J, where J represents a sum over KK modes. We show that allowed parameter choices exist for which this process may be accessible to a TeV-scale electron collider.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0204045,
  title  = {Bulk Majorons at Colliders},
  author = {Christopher D. Carone and Justin M. Conroy and Herry J. Kwee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0204045},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages LaTeX, 3 eps figures (references added)