Cosmic rays and large extra dimensions

DOI10.1023/A:1024077103557zbMATH Open1025.83504arXivhep-ph/0109247MaRDI QIDQ1398103FDOQ1398103

D. Massart

Publication date: 6 August 2003

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We have proposed that the cosmic ray spectrum "knee", the steepening of the cosmic ray spectrum at energy $Egsim10^{15.5}$ eV, is due to "new physics", namely new interactions at TeV cm energies which produce particles undetected by the experimental apparatus. In this letter we examine specifically the possibility that this interaction is low scale gravity. We consider that the graviton propagates, besides the usual four dimensions, into an additional $delta$, compactified, large dimensions and we estimate the graviton production in $pp$ collisions in the high energy approximation where graviton emission is factorized. We find that the cross section for graviton production rises as fast as $(sqrts/M_f{)}^{2+delta}$, where $M_f$ is the fundamental scale of gravity in $4+delta$ dimensions, and that the distribution of radiating a fraction $y$ of the initial particle's energy into gravitational energy (which goes undetected) behaves as $delta{y}^{delta-1}$. The missing energy leads to an underestimate of the true energy and generates a break in the {sl inferred} cosmic ray spectrum (the "kne"). By fitting the cosmic ray spectrum data we deduce that the favorite values for the parameters of the theory are $M_{f}sim8$ TeV and $delta=4$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0109247

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic rayKaluza-Klein theorygraviton production

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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