Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-07-05
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 105012
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.105012
In extensions of the standard model (SM) with d extra dimensions at the TeV scale the virtual exchange of Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations of the gauge bosons gives contributions that change the SM relations between electroweak observables. These corrections are finite only for d=1; for d\ge 2 the infinite tower of KK modes gives a divergent contribution that has to be regularized introducing a cutoff (the string scale). However, the ultraviolet dependence of the KK effects is completely different if the running of the couplings with the scale is taken into account. We find that for larger d the number of excitations at each KK level increases, but their larger number is compensated by the smaller value of the gauge coupling at that scale. As a result, for any number of extra dimensions the exchange of the complete KK tower always gives a finite contribution. We show that (i) for d=1 the running of the gauge coupling decreases an 14% the effect of the KK modes on electroweak observables; (ii) in all cases more than 90% of the total effect comes from the excitations in the seven lowest KK levels and is then independent of ultraviolet physics.
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