G Azuelos et al 2005 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 1 doi:10.1088/0954-3899/31/1/001
G Azuelos1,2, P-H Beauchemin1,3 and C P Burgess3
Show affiliationsWe examine whether the ATLAS detector has sensitivity to extra-dimensional scalars (as opposed to components of higher-dimensional tensors which look like 4D scalars), in scenarios having the extra-dimensional Planck scale in the TeV range and n ≥ 2 non-warped extra dimensions. Such scalars appear as partners of the graviton in virtually all higher dimensional supersymmetric theories. Using the scalar's lowest dimensional effective couplings to quarks and gluons, we compute the rate for the production of a hard jet together with missing energy. We find a non-trivial range of graviscalar couplings to which ATLAS could be sensitive, with experiments being more sensitive to couplings to gluons than to quarks. Graviscalar emission increases the missing-energy signal by adding to graviton production, and so complicates the inference of the extra-dimensional Planck scale from an observed rate. Because graviscalar differential cross-sections resemble those for gravitons, it is unlikely that these can be experimentally distinguished from one another should a missing-energy signal be observed.
Issue 1 (January 2005)
Received 5 July 2004
Published 6 December 2004
G Azuelos et al 2005 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 1
R Abbott et al 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 1591
Vasily G Suvorov and Nikolay M Zubarev 2004 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 37 289
Ali Mostafazadeh 2003 Class. Quantum Grav. 20 155
F Barone et al 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 1529
I. Llopis and I. Pagonabarraga 2006 Europhys. Lett. 75 999
Lennart Robertsson 2005 Metrologia 42 458
F Prieto et al 2003 Nanotechnology 14 907
P N Ostroumov 2006 New J. Phys. 8 281
E Yablonovitch 1993 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 5 2443