More and more indirect signals for extra dimensions at more and more colliders

Journal Article · Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.115010· OSTI ID:338725

Rizzo, T G ^[1]

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1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309 (United States)

It has been recently suggested by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali that gravity may become strong at energies not far above the electroweak scale and thus remove the hierarchy problem. Such a scenario can be tested at both present and future accelerators since towers of Kaluza-Klein gravitons and associated scalar fields now play an important phenomenological role. In this paper we examine several processes for their sensitivity to a low scale for quantum gravity including deep inelastic ep scattering at DESY HERA, high precision low energy {nu}N scattering, Bhabha and Mo/ller scattering at linear colliders and both fermion and gluon pair production at {gamma}{gamma} colliders. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}

• OSTI ID: 338725
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D, Vol. 59, Issue 11; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
QUANTUM GRAVITY
GRAVITONS
KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY
ELECTRON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
NEUTRINO REACTIONS
PHOTON-PHOTON INTERACTIONS
ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS
ACCELERATORS
DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING