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Higher Dimensional Operators or Large Extra Dimensions?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We deform gravity with higher curvature terms in four dimensions and argue that the non-relativistic limit is of the same form as the non-relativistic limit of the theories with large extra dimensions. Therefore the experiments that perform sub-millimeter tests of inverse-square law cannot distinguish the effects of large extra dimensions from the effects of higher dimensional operators. In other words instead of detecting the presence of sub-millimeter dimensions; the experiments could be detecting the existence of massive modes of gravity with large masses (103\ge 10^{-3} eV)

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0106134,
  title  = {Higher Dimensional Operators or Large Extra Dimensions?},
  author = {Bayram Tekin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0106134},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 more references added, the reason why we disregard all but the linear and the quadratic terms is stated