Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-11-17
Phys.Lett.B450:24-33,1999
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, Latex
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00135-5
We study the effects of possible flavor-violating operators in theories with the TeV scale quantum gravity, in which the ordinary matter is localized on a 3-brane embedded in the space with $N$ extra dimensions, whereas gravity propagates in the bulk. These operators are scaled by the fundamental Planck mass $M_{Pf}\sim$ TeV and must be suppressed by the gauge family symmetries. We study suppression of the most dangerous and model-independent operators. Several points emerge. First, we show that the Abelian symmetries can not do the job and one has to invoke non-Abelian $U(2)_F$ (or $U(3)_F$) symmetries. However, even in this case there emerge severe restrictions on the fermion mixing pattern and the whole structure of the theory. In order not to be immediately excluded by the well-known bounds, the horizontal gauge fields {\it must} be the bulk modes, like gravitons. For the generic hierarchical breaking pattern the four-fermion operators induced by the tree-level exchange of the bulk gauge fields are unsuppressed for $N = 2$. For $N > 3$ the suppression factor goes as a square of the largest $U(2)_F$-non-invariant Yukawa coupling, which implies the lower bound $M_{Pf} > 10$ TeV or so from the $K^0 - \bar K^0$ system. Situation is different in the scenarios when flavor Higgs fields live on a ($3 + N'$)-brane of lower dimensionality than the gauge fields. The further suppression of gauge-mediated operators can be achieved by an explicit construction: for instance, if $U(2)_F$ is broken by a vacuum expectation value of the doublet, the troublesome operators are suppressed in the leading order, due to custodial SO(4) symmetry of the Higgs-gauge quartic coupling.
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