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Limits on Low Scale Gravity from $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^-, ZZ$ and $\gamma \gamma$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

It has been proposed recently that the scale of quantum gravity (``the string scale'') can be MSM_S \sim few TeV with n2n \geq 2 extra dimensions of size R<R \stackrel{<}{\sim} mm so that, at distances greater than RR, Newtonian gravity with MPl1018M_{Pl} \sim 10^{18} GeV is reproduced if MPl2RnMSn+2M_{Pl}^2 \sim R^n M_S^{n+2}. Exchange of virtual gravitons in this theory generates higher-dimensional operators involving SM fields, suppressed by powers of MSM_S. We discuss constraints on this scenario from the contribution of these operators to the processes e+eW+W,ZZ,γγe^+ e^- \to W^+ W^-, ZZ, \gamma \gamma. We find that LEP2 can place a limit MS1M_S \approx 1 TeV from e+eW+W,ZZ,γγe^+ e^- \to W^+ W^-, ZZ, \gamma \gamma.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902263,
  title  = {Limits on Low Scale Gravity from $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^-, ZZ$ and $\gamma \gamma$},
  author = {K. Agashe and N. G. Deshpande},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902263},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Replacing an earlier version. A discussion of using polarized electron beams and some minor comments have been added

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