Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4765 - 4768 (1999)

Indirect Collider Signals for Extra Dimensions

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JoAnne L. Hewett
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California 94309

Received 30 November 1998

A recent suggestion that quantum gravity becomes strong near the weak scale can be probed by the exchange of Kaluza Klein towers of massive gravitons in fermion pair production in e+e- annihilation and in Drell-Yan production, including contributions from gluon-gluon fusion, at hadron colliders. These processes are found to provide strong bounds which are essentially independent of the number of extra dimensions. We also demonstrate that angular distributions provide a smoking gun signal for low-scale quantum gravity which cannot be mimicked by other new physics scenarios.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v82/p4765
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4765
PACS: 13.10.+q, 04.50.+h, 11.25.Mj, 13.85.Rm

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