Graviton Production in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

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17 September 2000

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/0009059

Abstract

We study the feasibility of producing the graviton of the novel Kaluza-Klein theory in which there are d large compact dimensions in addition to the 4 dimensions of Minkowski spacetime. We calculate the cross section for producing such a graviton in nucleus-nucleus collisions via t-channel photon-photon fusion using the semiclassical Weizsacker-Williams method and show that it can exceed the cross section for graviton production in electron-positron scattering by several orders of magnitude.

Keywords

GRAVITON PRODUCTION
RELATIVISTIC HEAVY
ION COLLISIONS
CROSS SECTION
SCATTERING
DIMENSIONS
HEAVY ION
PHOTON

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Version 1, 2000-09-17, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review D, 62 (11), 116001.

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