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Asymptotic safety and Kaluza-Klein gravitons at the LHC

Erik C. Gerwick, Daniel F. Litim, Tilman Plehn

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We study Drell-Yan production at the LHC in low-scale quantum gravity models with extra dimensions. Asymptotic safety implies that the ultraviolet behavior of gravity is dictated by a fixed point. We show how the energy dependence of Newton's coupling regularizes the gravitational amplitude using a renormalization group improvement. We study LHC predictions and find that Kaluza-Klein graviton signals are well above standard model backgrounds. This leaves a significant sensitivity to the energy scale ${\ensuremath{\Lambda}}_{T}$ where the gravitational couplings crossover from classical to fixed point scaling.

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We study Drell-Yan production at the LHC in low-scale quantum gravity models with extra dimensions. Asymptotic safety implies that the ultraviolet behavior of gravity is dictated by a fixed point. We show how the energy dependence of Newton's coupling regularizes the gravitational amplitude using a renormalization group improvement. We study LHC predictions and find that Kaluza-Klein graviton signals are well above standard model backgrounds. This leaves a significant sensitivity to the energy scale ${\ensuremath{\Lambda}}_{T}$ where the gravitational couplings crossover from classical to fixed point scaling.

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We study Drell-Yan production at the LHC in low-scale quantum gravity models with extra dimensions. Asymptotic safety implies that the ultraviolet behavior of gravity is dictated by a fixed point. We show how the energy dependence of Newton's coupling regularizes the gravitational amplitude using a renormalization group improvement. We study LHC predictions and find that Kaluza-Klein graviton signals are well above standard model backgrounds. This leaves a significant sensitivity to the energy scale ${\ensuremath{\Lambda}}_{T}$ where the gravitational couplings crossover from classical to fixed point scaling.

Key concepts: Graviton, Physics, Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity, Large Hadron Collider, Particle physics, Large extra dimension, Kaluza–Klein theory, Amplitude

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