Searching for string resonances in e^+e^- and γγcollisions

Details Searching for string resonances in e^+e^- and γγcollisions Searching for string resonances in e^+e^- and γγcollisions

2010-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/1012.3466v2

Phys.Rev.D83:106006,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

To be published in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.106006

If the fundamental mass scale of superstring theory is as low as few TeVs, the massive modes of vibrating strings, Regge excitations, will be copiously produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We discuss the complementary signals of low mass superstrings at the proposed electron-positron facility (CLIC), in e^+e^- and \gamma \gamma collisions. We examine all relevant four-particle amplitudes evaluated at the center of mass energies near the mass of lightest Regge excitations and extract the corresponding pole terms. The Regge poles of all four-point amplitudes, in particular the spin content of the resonances, are completely model independent, universal properties of the entire landscape of string compactifications. We show that \gamma \gamma \to e^+ e^- scattering proceeds only through a spin-2 Regge state. We estimate that for this particular channel, string scales as high as 4 TeV can be discovered at the 11\sigma level with the first fb^{-1} of data collected at a center-of-mass energy \approx 5 TeV. We also show that for e^+e^- annihilation into fermion-antifermion pairs, string theory predicts the precise value, equal 1/3, of the relative weight of spin 2 and spin 1 contributions. This yields a dimuon angular distribution with a pronounced forward-backward asymmetry, which will help distinguishing between low mass strings and other beyond the standard model scenarios.

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