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Diphoton Signals for Large Extra Dimensions at the Tevatron and CERN LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We analyze the potentiality of hadron colliders to search for large extra dimensions via the production of photon pairs. The virtual exchange of Kaluza--Klein gravitons can significantly enhance this processes provided the quantum gravity scale (MSM_S) is in the TeV range. We studied in detail the subprocesses qqˉγγq \bar{q} \to \gamma \gamma and ggγγg g \to \gamma \gamma taking into account the complete Standard Model and graviton contributions as well as the unitarity constraints. We show that the Tevatron Run II will be able to probe MSM_S up to 1.5--1.9 TeV at 2σ\sigma level, while the LHC can extend this search to 5.3--6.7 TeV, depending on the number of extra dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908358,
  title  = {Diphoton Signals for Large Extra Dimensions at the Tevatron and CERN LHC},
  author = {O. J. P. Eboli and T. Han and M. B. Magro and P. G. Mercadante},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908358},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages LaTex, 8 eps figures. Using axodraw.sty. To be submitted to Physical Review D