Abstract

Effects of Kaluza-Klein excitations associated with extra dimensions with large radius compactifications on the Fermi constant are explored. It is shown that the current precision determinations of the Fermi constant, of the fine structure constant, and of the W and Z mass put stringent constraints on the compactification radius. The analysis excludes one extra space time dimension below $\sim 1.6$ TeV, and excludes 2, 3 and 4 extra space dimensions opening simultaneously below $\sim$ 3.5 TeV, 5.7 TeV and 7.8 TeV at the $90% CL$. Implications of these results for future collider experiments are discussed.

Notes

Originally posted at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9902323v1. Preprint of an article published in Physical Review D, v.60 no.11, 1999.

Keywords

high energy physics phenomenology, Fermi constants, space-time dimensions

Subject Categories

Kaluza-Klein theories

Disciplines

Physics

Publication Date

1999


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