Extensive air showers with TeV-scale quantum gravity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-15 v2 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
One of the possible consequences of the existence of extra degrees of freedom beyond the electroweak scale is the increase of neutrino-nucleon cross sections () beyond Standard Model predictions. At ultra-high energies this may allow the existence of neutrino-initiated extensive air showers. In this paper, we examine the most relevant observables of such showers. Our analysis indicates that the future Pierre Auger Observatory could be potentially powerful in probing models with large compact dimensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011097,
title = {Extensive air showers with TeV-scale quantum gravity},
author = {Luis Anchordoqui and Haim Goldberg and Thomas McCauley and Thomas Paul and Stephen Reucroft and John Swain},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011097},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
7 pages revtex, 5 eps figs