PARTICLE PHYSICS PROBES OF EXTRA SPACETIME DIMENSIONS
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
- Vol. 52 (1) , 397-424
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.52.050102.090706
Abstract
The possibility that spacetime is extended beyond the familiar 3+1-dimensions has intrigued physicists for a century. Indeed, the consequences of a dimensionally richer spacetime would be profound. Recently, new theories with higher dimensional spacetimes have been developed to resolve the hierarchy problem in particle physics. These scenarios make distinct predictions which allow for experiment to probe the existence of extra dimensions in new ways. We review the conceptual framework of these scenarios, their implications in collider and short-range gravity experiments, their astrophysical and cosmological effects, as well as the constraints placed on these models from present data.Keywords
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