Extra dimension of space-time exposed by anomalies at low energy

Abstract

Recent experimental observations are shown to be quantitatively consistent with an extended concept of space-time having a discrete extra dimension of two points at the distance of 11.8 fm together with a nontrivial metric structure. In such a space-time, fermions appear in pair with their Kaluza-Klein siblings. The usual electromagnetic field is accompanied with a new vector boson $X17$, which receives a mass of $17~MeV$ from another Kaluza-Klein partner, a scalar boson $H$ of a mass in the range of $0.5-793~keV$ via an abelian Higgs mechanism. At a low energy scale, where nucleons can be treated as structureless in a good approximation, the natural particle model involving nucleons, electron, neutrino and their Kaluza-Klein partners coupled to the electromagnetic field and the massive vector boson $X7$ can lead to new phenomenological consequences, which are verifiable at the currently accessible energy.