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Bulk Majorons at Colliders

Christopher D. Carone, Justin M. Conroy, Herry J. Kwee

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0204045

Abstract

Lepton number violation may arise via the spontaneous breakdown of a global symmetry. In extra dimensions, spontaneous lepton number violation in the bulk implies the existence of a Goldstone boson, the majoron J(0), as well as an accompanying tower of Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations, J(n). Even if the zero-mode majoron is very weakly interacting, so that detection in low-energy processes is difficult, the sum over the tower of KK modes may partially compensate in processes of relevance at high-energy colliders. Here we consider the inclusive differential and total cross sections for e- e- --> W- W- J, where J represents a sum over KK modes. We show that allowed parameter choices exist for which this process may be accessible to a TeV-scale electron collider.

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