Constraints on extra dimensional theories from virtual graviton exchange
Jan, 200312 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 663 (2003) 377-393
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0301232 [hep-ph]
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Report number:
- IFUP-TH-2003-4,
- CERN-TH-2003-013
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the effective interactions induced by loops of extra-dimensional gravitons and show the special role of a specific dimension-6 four-fermion operator, product of two flavour-universal axial currents. By introducing an ultraviolet cut-off, we compare the present constraints on low-scale quantum gravity from various processes involving real-graviton emission and virtual-graviton exchange. The LEP2 limits on dimension-6 four-fermion interactions give one of the strongest constraint on the theory, in particular excluding the case of strongly-interacting gravity at the weak scale.Note:
- 12 pages
- 12.60.-i
- grand unified theory
- operator: (4fermion)
- operator: higher-dimensional
- graviton: exchange
- graviton: emission
- quantum gravity
- tree approximation
- Feynman graph: higher-order
- gauge boson: exchange
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