Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-03-24
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 075001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
32 pages, 12 figures, latex, remarks added to text
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.075001
Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali have recently suggested that gravity may become strong at energies near 1 TeV which would remove the hierarchy problem. Such a scenario can be tested at present and future colliders since the exchange of towers of Kaluza-Klein gravitons leads to a set of new dimension-8 operators that can play important phenomenological roles. In this paper we examine how the production of pairs of scalars at $e^+e^-$, $\gamma \gamma$ and hadron colliders can be used to further probe the effects of graviton tower exchange. In particular we examine the tree-level production of pairs of identical Higgs fields which occurs only at the loop level in both the Standard Model and its extension to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Cross sections for such processes are found to be potentially large at the LHC and the next generation of linear colliders. For the $\gamma\gamma$ case the role of polarization in improving sensitivity to graviton exchange is emphasized.
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