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Title: Colliders and brane vector phenomenology

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2036 (United States)

Brane world oscillations manifest themselves as massive vector gauge fields. Their coupling to the standard model is deduced using the method of nonlinear realizations of the spontaneously broken higher dimensional space-time symmetries. Brane vectors are stable and weakly interacting and therefore escape particle detectors unnoticed. LEP and Tevatron data on the production of a single photon in conjunction with missing energy are used to delineate experimentally excluded regions of brane vector parameter space. The additional region of parameter space accessible to the LHC as well as a future lepton linear collider is also determined by means of this process.

OSTI ID:
21251034
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.115004; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English