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Phenomenological constraints on extra-dimensional scalars

G Azuelos1,2, P-H Beauchemin1,3 and C P Burgess3

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We 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.


PACS

14.70.Dj Gluons

14.65.-q Quarks

12.60.Jv Supersymmetric models

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

13.87.-a Jets in large-Q2 scattering

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 1 (January 2005)

Received 5 July 2004

Published 6 December 2004



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