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More Transverse Polarization Signatures of Extra Dimensions at Linear Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Polarization of both electron and positron beams at a future linear collider (LC) allows for the measurement of transverse polarization asymmetries. These asymmetries have been shown to be particularly sensitive to graviton or other spin-2, ss-channel exchanges in the process e+effˉ(fe)e^+e^- \to f\bar f (f\neq e) which allows for a doubling of the usual search reach. A question then arises as to whether other e+ee^+e^- processes also show comparable sensitivity. Here we extend our previous analysis to the set of final states e+e,W+W, 2γe^+e^-, W^+W^-,~2\gamma and  2Z~2Z as well as to the M{\o}ller scattering process eeeee^-e^-\to e^-e^-. We demonstrate that these reactions yield transverse polarization asymmetries which are somewhat less sensitive to graviton exchange than are those obtained in our earlier analysis for e+effˉe^+e^-\to f\bar f.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0306283,
  title  = {More Transverse Polarization Signatures of Extra Dimensions at Linear Colliders},
  author = {Thomas G. Rizzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0306283},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 5 figs, LaTex