Limits on Extra Dimensions and New Particle Production in the Exclusive Photon

Authors

Darin Acosta, University of FloridaFollow
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Date of this Version

12-31-2002

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. D 66, 052005 (2002). http://prd.aps.org. Copyright © 2002 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

The exclusive γE/_T signal has a small standard model cross section and is thus a channel sensitive to new physics. This signature is predicted by models with a superlight gravitino or with large extra spatial dimensions. We search for such signals at the Collider Detector at Fermilab, using 87   pb^-1 of data at √s=1.8   TeV, and extract 95% C.L. limits on these processes. A limit of 221 GeV is set on the scale |F|^1/2 in supersymmetric models. For 4, 6, and 8 extra dimensions, model-dependent limits on the fundamental mass scale M_D of 0.55, 0.58, and 0.60 TeV, respectively, are found. We also specify a “pseudo-model-independent” method of comparing the results to theoretical predictions.