Spontaneous Spacetime Reduction and Unitary Weak Boson Scattering at the LHC
arXiv:1301.4570 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.065
Abstract
Theories of quantum gravity predict spacetime dimensions to become reduced at high energies, a striking phenomenon known as spontaneous dimensional reduction (SDR). We construct an effective electroweak theory based on the standard model (SM) and incorporate the TeV-scale SDR, which exhibits good high energy behavior and ensures the unitarity of weak gauge boson scattering. This also provides a natural solution to the hierarchy problem in the presence of scalar Higgs boson. We demonstrate that this model predicts unitary longitudinal weak boson scattering, and can be discriminated from the conventional 4d SM by the WW scattering experiments at the CERN LHC.
Phys. Lett. B (in Press). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1112.1028
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