Large extra dimensions and deep-inelastic scattering at HERA

Abstract

In scenarios motivated by string theories, it is possible to have extra Kaluza-Klein dimensions compactified to rather large magnitudes, leading to large effects of gravity at scales down to a TeV. The effect of the spin-2 Kaluza-Klein modes on the deep-inelastic cross-section at HERA is investigated. We find that the data can be used to obtain bounds on the effective low energy scale, $M_S$.

Comments: 7 pages, latex, 1 ps figure, revised version to appear in Phys. Lett. B