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Running Coupling with Minimal Length

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In models with large additional dimensions, the GUT scale can be lowered to values accessible by future colliders. Due to modification of the loop corrections from particles propagating into the extra dimensions, the logarithmic running of the couplings of the Standard Model is turned into a power law. These loop-correction are divergent and the standard way to achieve finiteness is the introduction of a cut-off. The question remains, whether the results are reliable as they depend on an unphysical parameter. In this paper, we show that this running of the coupling can be calculated within a model including the existence of a minimal length scale. The minimal length acts as a natural regulator and allows us to confirm cut-off computations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405127,
  title  = {Running Coupling with Minimal Length},
  author = {Sabine Hossenfelder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405127},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

26 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected, replaced with published version