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Collider searches for extra dimensions
Searches for extra spatial dimensions remain among the most popular new directions in our quest for physics beyond the Standard Model. High-energy collider experiments of the current decade should be able to find an ultimate answer to the question of their existence in a variety of models. Until the start of the LHC in a few years, the Tevatron will remain the key player in this quest. In this paper, we review the most recent results from the Tevatron on searches for large, TeV{sup -1}-size, and Randall-Sundrum extra spatial dimensions, which have reached a new level of sensitivity and currently probe the parameter space beyond the existing constraints. While no evidence for the existence of extra dimensions has been found so far, an exciting discovery might be just steps away.
119087457
Rapidity correlations in W gamma production at the tevatron
We study the correlation of photon and charged lepton pseudorapidities, $\eta(\gamma)$ and $\eta(\ell)$, $\ell=e,\,\mu$, in $p\bar p\rightarrow W^\pm\gamma+X\rightarrow \ell^\pm p\llap/_T\gamma+X$ at the Tevatron. In the Standard Model, the $\Delta\eta(\gamma,\ell)= \eta(\gamma) - \eta(\ell)$ differential cross section is found to exhibit a pronounced dip at $\Delta\eta(\gamma,\ell) \approx \mp 0.4$, which originates from the radiation zero present in $q\bar q'\rightarrow W\gamma$. The sensitivity of the $\Delta\eta(\gamma,\ell)$ distribution to higher order QCD corrections, non-standard $WW\gamma$ couplings, and the cuts imposed is explored. The $\Delta\eta(\gamma,\ell)$ distribution is compared with other quantities which are sensitive to the radiation zero.
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Vanishing Dimensions and Planar Events at the LHC
We propose that the effective dimensionality of the space we live in depends on the length scale we are probing. As the length scale increases, new dimensions open up. At short scales the space is lower dimensional; at the intermediate scales the space is three-dimensional; and at large scales, the space is effectively higher dimensional. This setup allows for some fundamental problems in cosmology, gravity, and particle physics to be attacked from a new perspective. The proposed framework, among the other things, offers a new approach to the cosmological constant problem and results in striking collider phenomenology and may explain elongated jets observed in cosmic-ray data.
16891404
Drell-Yan and diphoton production at hadron colliders and low scale gravity model
In the model of Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali where gravity is allowed to propagate in the extra dimensions of very large size, virtual graviton exchange between the standard model particles can give rise to signatures that can be tested in collider experiments. We study these effects in dilepton and diphoton production at hadron colliders. Specifically, we examine the double differential cross section in the invariant mass and scattering angle, which is found to be useful in separating the gravity effects from the standard model. In this work, sensitivity obtained using the double differential cross section is higher than that in previous studies based on single differential distributions. Assuming no excess of events over the standard model predictions, we obtain the following 95% confidence level lower limits on the effective Planck scale: 0.9\char21{}1.5 TeV in the Fermilab Tevatron run I, 1.3\char21{}2.5 TeV in run IIa, 1.7\char21{}3.5 TeV in run IIb, and 6.5\char21{}12.8 TeV at the CERN LHC. The range of numbers corresponds to the number of extra dimensions $n=7\ensuremath{-}2.$
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Vanishing Dimensions and Planar Events at the LHC
We present a paradigm in which the effective dimensionality of space depends on the length scale we are probing. At short scales the space is lower dimensional; at the intermediate scales the space is three-dimensional; and at large scales, the space is effectively higher dimensional. This setup allows for some fundamental problems in cosmology, gravity, and particle physics to be approached from a new perspective and results in striking collider phenomenology. It may also explain elongated jets observed in cosmic-ray data.
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Search for Exotics at the Tevatron: Present and Future
We present recent results on searches for non-SUSY new physics at the CDF and D0 Collaborations in the 1992-1996 Fermilab Tevatron run. While no compelling evidence for existence of new physics was found, the Tevatron data have excluded a significant region of the theoretically allowed phase space for a variety of non-SUSY extensions of the Standard Model. Tight limits on the existence of the following new phenomena are set: leptoquarks of all three generations, quark-lepton compositeness, 4-th generation quarks, fermiophobic Higgs, technicolor, etc. Prospects of the Tevatron experiments in Run II are discussed.
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Search for exotic baryons in the experiments on proton beam with $E_{p}$=70 GeV and other measurements with the SPHINX facility
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Study of diffractive production processes in proton-nucleon and proton-nucleus interactions and search for exotic baryons
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Search for exotic baryons with the SPHINX facility
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Searches for exotic pentaquark baryons with hidden strangeness in experiments at the SPHINX facility
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On the search for cryptoexotic strange baryons with additional hidden strangeness in the experiments with high energy hyperon beams