Extra Dimensions and Varying Alpha

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2002-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0207090v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Oral contribution to IAP Colloquium 2002, to appear in the Proceedings

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I review recent constraints on and claimed detections of a time-varying fine-structure constant $\alpha$. Our results are consistent with no variation in $\alpha$ from the epoch of recombination to the present day, and restrict any such variation to be less than about 4%. The forthcoming MAP and Planck experiments will be able to break most of the currently existing degeneracies between $\alpha$ and other cosmological parameters, and measure $\alpha$ in the early universe with an accuracy comparable to current claimed recent-universe detections.

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