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Limits on the brane fluctuations mass and on the brane tension scale from electron-positron colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the context of the brane-world scenarios with compactified large extra dimensions, we study the production of the possible massive brane oscillations (branons) in electron-positron colliders. We compute their contribution to the electroweak gauge bosons decay width and to the single-photon and single-Z processes. With LEP-I results and assuming non observation at LEP-II, we present exclusion plots for the brane tension τ=f4\tau = f^4 and the branon mass MM. Prospects for the next generation of electron-positron colliders are also considered.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0212269,
  title  = {Limits on the brane fluctuations mass and on the brane tension scale from electron-positron colliders},
  author = {J. Alcaraz and J. A. R. Cembranos and A. Dobado and A. L. Maroto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0212269},
  year   = {2008}
}

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