Graviton Production in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the feasibility of producing the graviton of the novel Kaluza-Klein theory in which there are d large compact dimensions in addition to the 4 dimensions of Minkowski spacetime. We calculate the cross section for producing such a graviton in nucleus-nucleus collisions via t-channel photon-photon fusion using the semiclassical Weizsacker-Williams method and show that it can exceed the cross section for graviton production in electron-positron scattering by several orders of magnitude.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0009059,
title = {Graviton Production in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions},
author = {Sean C. Ahern and John W. Norbury and William J. Poyser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0009059},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review D