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Collider signals of gravitational fixed points

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JoAnne L. Hewett and Thomas G. Rizzo

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Recent studies have shown that the poor perturbative behavior of General Relativity in the ultraviolet regime may be ameliorated by the existence of a non-Gaussian fixed point which renders the theory asymptotically safe and possibly non-perturbatively renormalizable. This results in a running of the (effective) gravitational coupling such that gravity becomes weaker at high energies. We parameterize this effective coupling with a form factor and study its consequences at the LHC and ILC in models with large extra dimensions or warped extra dimensions. We find significant effects in the processes of Kaluza-Klein (KK) graviton exchange or resonant KK graviton production in both the Drell-Yan reaction as well as in e+efbar f. On the otherhand, processes leading to KK graviton emission show qualitatively less sensitivity to the presence of a form factor. In addition, we examine tree-level perturbative unitarity in 2→2 gravity-mediated scattering and find that this form factor produces a far better behaved amplitude at large center of mass energies.

Keywords

Beyond Standard Model

Models of Quantum Gravity

 

E-print Number: 0707.3182

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PACS

04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity

13.66.-a Lepton-lepton interactions

04.60.-m Quantum gravity

13.85.Qk Inclusive production with identified leptons, photons, or other nonhadronic particles

12.60.-i Models beyond the standard model

11.15.Tk Other nonperturbative techniques

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2007)

Received 23 August 2007, accepted for publication 20 November 2007

Published 4 December 2007



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