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Collider Tests of Compact Space Dimensions Using Weak Gauge Bosons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We present collider tests of the recent proposal for weak-scale quantum gravity due to new large compact space dimensions in which only the graviton (\G\G) propagates. We show that the existing high precision LEP-I ZZ-pole data can impose non-trivial constraints on the scale of the new dimensions, via the decay mode Zffˉ+\GZ\to f\bar{f}+\G (f=q,f=q,\ell). These bounds are comparable to those obtained at high energy colliders and provide the first sensitive probe of the scalar graviton. We also study W(Z)+\GW(Z)+\G production and the anomalous WW(ZZ)WW(ZZ) signal from virtual \G\G-states at the Fermilab Tevatron, and compare them with the LEP-I bound and those from LEP-II and future linear colliders.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9904220,
  title  = {Collider Tests of Compact Space Dimensions Using Weak Gauge Bosons},
  author = {C. Balazs and D. A. Dicus and H. -J. He and W. W. Repko and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9904220},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 postscript figure included

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