Constraints on extra dimensional theories from virtual graviton exchange

Jan, 2003
12 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 663 (2003) 377-393
e-Print:
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