Physics Letters B 788 (2019) 388–395
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Universal Extra Dimension models with gravity mediated decays after
LHC Run II data
Kirtiman Ghosh
a,b,∗
, Durmus Karabacak
c
, S. Nandi
d,e
a
Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Sainik School Post, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
b
Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400085, India
c
Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Mugla 48000, Turkey
d
Department of Physics and Oklahoma Center for High Energy Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-3072, USA
e
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
26 June 2018
Received
in revised form 28 September
2018
Accepted
20 November 2018
Available
online 22 November 2018
Editor: A.
Ringwald
In the ‘fat-brane’ realization of Universal Extra Dimension (UED) models, the gravity mediated decays
of Kaluza–Klein (KK) excitations of the Standard Model (SM) particles offer interesting collider
signals. Colored level-1 KK-particles (quarks q
1
and/or gluons g
1
) are pair-produced at the colliders
due to conserved KK-parity. These particles, then, cascade decay into lighter level-1 KK-particle in
association with one or more SM particles until producing lightest KK particle (LKP). The gravity
mediation allows LKP to decay into photon or Z -boson plus gravity excitation, hence resulting in
di-photon/ZZ/Zγ plus missing transverse energy signatures at collider experiments. Alternatively, pair-
produced
level-1 KK quarks/gluons may directly decay into the corresponding SM quark/gluon and a
gravity excitation resulting in di-jet plus missing transverse energy signal. The ATLAS Collaboration has
recently communicated the results for di-photon and multi-jet plus missing transverse energy searches
with 36.1inverse-femtobarn of integrated luminosity at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy. No significant
excess of events above the SM expectation was observed in both searches. We constrain the ‘fat-brane’
UED model parameters, namely the fundamental Planck mass M
D
and the size of small extra dimensions
R, in the light of above-mentioned ATLAS searches.
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The extra dimensional models offer another perspective on the
shortcomings of the Standard Model (SM) and predict new signals
at the current and future collider experiments. In the case of ADD
[1]model, for instance, the SM particles are localized on 3-brane
(4-dimensional manifold) and only gravity is allowed to propagate
into ‘N’ number of large extra dimensions. The four-dimensional
Planck mass, is then diluted by the volume of the extra dimen-
sional
space V
N
∼ r
N
, where N and r are the number and size
of large extra dimensions, resulting in higher dimensional Planck
mass around a few TeV and hence offering a solution to natural-
ness/hierarchy
problem. The same problem is also addressed by
RS [2]model through introduction of warped metric. On the other
hand, there are a class of models, known as Universal Extra Di-
mension
(UED) models, wherein some or all of the SM fields can
access small (TeV
−1
) extra dimension(s) [3,4]. Such scenarios do
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Corresponding author.
E-mail
addresses: kirti.gh@gmail.com (K. Ghosh), durmuskarabacak@gmail.com
(D. Karabacak),
s.nandi@okstate.edu (S. Nandi).
not offer solutions to the naturalness/hierarchy problem as elegant
as ADD or RS does however, could lead to a new mechanism of
supersymmetry breaking [3], relax the upper limit of the light-
est
supersymmetric neutral Higgs mass [5], interpret the Higgs as
a quark composite leading to a electroweak symmetry breaking
(EWSB) without a fundamental scalar or Yukawa interactions [6],
lower the unification scale down to a few TeVs [7], give a different
perspective to the issue of fermion mass hierarchy [8], provide a
cosmologically viable candidate for dark matter [9,10], predict the
number of fermion generations to be an integral multiple of three
[11], explain the long life time of proton [12] and give rise to in-
teresting
signatures at collider experiments [13–15].
One
might consider modifying the above scenario by introduc-
ing
gravity and letting it propagate into the extra dimensions to
obtain a higher dimensional Plank mass in the scale of few TeVs
as in the case of ADD model. Higher dimensional Plank mass in the
range of few TeVs requires large extra dimensional volume acces-
sible
to gravity and hence, eV
−1
-size extra dimensions. However,
in this scenario, all the SM particles will also have eV mass exci-
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