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Effects of Extra Dimensions on Unitarity and Higgs Boson Mass

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We study the unitarity constraint on the two body Higgs boson elastic scattering in the presence of extra dimensions. The contributions from exchange of spin-2 and spin-0 Kaluza-Klein states can have large effect on the partial wave amplitude. Unitarity condition restrict the maximal allowed value for the ratio rr of the center of mass energy to the gravity scale to be less than one. Although the constraint on the standard Higgs boson mass for rr of order one is considerably relaxed, for small rr the constraint is similar to that in the Standard Model. The resulting bound on the Higgs boson mass is not dramatically altered if perturbative calculations are required to be valid up to the maximal allowed value for rr.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905500,
  title  = {Effects of Extra Dimensions on Unitarity and Higgs Boson Mass},
  author = {Xiao-Gang He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905500},
  year   = {2009}
}

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References added, RevTex, 9 pages with two figures