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Precision Electroweak Data and Unification of Couplings in Warped Extra Dimensions

Marcela Carena·Antonio Delgado·Eduardo Ponton·Tim M. P. Tait·C. E. M. Wagner
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Warped extra dimensions allow a novel way of solving the hierarchy problem, with all fundamental mass parameters of the theory naturally of the order of the Planck scale. The observable value of the Higgs vacuum expectation value is red-shifted, due to the localization of the Higgs field in the extra dimension. It has been recently observed that, when the gauge fields propagate in the bulk, unification of the gauge couplings may be achieved. Moreover, the propagation of fermions in the bulk allows for a simple solution to potentially dangerous proton decay problems. However, bulk gauge fields and fermions pose a phenomenological challenge, since they tend to induce large corrections to the precision electroweak observables. In this article, we study in detail the effect of gauge and fermion fields propagating in the bulk in the presence of gauge brane kinetic terms compatible with gauge coupling unification, and we present ways of obtaining a consistent description of experimental data, while allowing values of the first Kaluza Klein mode masses of the order of a few TeV.

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Marcela Carena, Antonio Delgado, Eduardo Ponton, Tim M. P. Tait, C. E. M. Wagner. 2003-08-19. Precision Electroweak Data and Unification of Couplings in Warped Extra Dimensions. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.68.035010

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