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Search for low scale gravity effects in e+e collisions at LEP

ContributorsL3 Collab.
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 464, no. 1-2, p. 135-144
Publication date1999
Abstract

Recent theories propose that quantum gravity effects may be observable at LEP energies via gravitons that couple to Standard Model particles and propagate into extra spatial dimensions. The associated production of a graviton and a photon is searched for as well as the effects of virtual graviton exchange in the processes: e + e − → γγ , ZZ, W + W − , μ + μ − , τ + τ − , q q ̄ and e + e − . No evidence for this new interaction is found in the data sample collected by the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies up to 183 GeV. Limits close to 1 TeV on the scale of this new scenario of quantum gravity are set.

Keywords
  • Electron positron: colliding beams
  • Electron positron: annihilation
  • New particle: search for
  • Photon: electroproduction
  • Graviton: associated production
  • Graviton: exchange
  • Photon: pair production
  • Intermediate boson: pair production
  • Quark: pair production
  • Lepton: pair production
  • Graviton: mass
  • Lower limit
  • Angular distribution
  • L3
  • Experimental results
  • CERN LEP Stor
  • 130-183 GeV-cms
  • S071GEX
Citation (ISO format)
L3 Collab. Search for low scale gravity effects in e+e collisions at LEP. In: Physics letters. B, 1999, vol. 464, n° 1-2, p. 135–144. doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(99)01011-4
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