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One Universal Extra Dimension in Pythia

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-12-04 v1

Abstract

The Universal Extra Dimensions model has been implemented in the Pythia generator from version 6.4.18 onwards, in its minimal formulation with one inverse-TeV-sized extra dimension. The additional possibility of gravity-mediated decays, through a variable number of inverse-eV-sized extra dimensions into which only gravity extends, is also available. The implementation covers the lowest-lying Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations of Standard Model particles, except for the excitations of the Higgs fields, with the mass spectrum calculated at one loop. 2 -> 2 tree-level production cross sections and KK number conserving 2-body decays are included. Mixing between iso-doublet and -singlet KK excitations is neglected thus far, and is expected to be negligible for all but the top sector.

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@article{arxiv.0901.4087,
  title  = {One Universal Extra Dimension in Pythia},
  author = {M. ElKacimi and D. Goujdami and H. Przysiezniak and P. Skands},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4087},
  year   = {2009}
}

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