Gauge Coupling Unification with Extra Dimensions and Gravitational Scale Effects

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1999-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9906327v2

Nucl.Phys. B573 (2000) 597-616

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

25 pages, LaTex, 3 figures. References added

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00816-0

We study gauge coupling unification in the presence of extra dimensions compactified at a few TeV. Achieving unification requires a large number of gauge boson Kaluza-Klein excitations lighter than the string scale, such that the higher-dimensional gauge couplings are O(1) in string scale units. Corrections to the gauge couplings from two or more loops are about 10% or larger, hence string (or M) theory is generally expected to be strongly coupled in TeV-scale extra-dimensional scenarios. Higher-dimensional operators induced by quantum gravitational effects can shift the gauge couplings by a few percent. These effects are sufficiently large that even the minimal Standard Model, or the MSSM, allow unification at a scale in the TeV range. The strongly coupled unified theory may induce dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking.

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