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Phys. Rev. D 77, 094012 (2008) [11 pages]

Unparticle physics at the photon collider

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Tatsuru Kikuchi1,*, Nobuchika Okada1,2,†, and Michihisa Takeuchi1,2,3,‡
1Theory Division, KEK, Oho 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
2Department of Particle and Nuclear Physics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Oho 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
3Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

Received 6 January 2008; revised 21 March 2008; published 19 May 2008

Recently, a conceptually new physics beyond the standard model (SM), unparticle, has been proposed, where a hidden conformal sector is coupled to the SM sector through higher dimensional operators. In this setup, we investigate unparticle physics at the photon collider, in particular, unparticle effects on the γγγγ process. Since this process occurs at loop level in the SM, the unparticle effects can be significant even if the cutoff scale is very high. In fact, we find that the unparticle effects cause sizable deviations from the SM results. The scaling dimension of the unparticle dU reflects the dependence of the cross section on the final state photon invariant mass, so that precision measurements of this dependence may reveal the scaling dimension of the unparticle.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.094012
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.094012
PACS:
13.66.Hk, 12.90.+b, 13.88.+e, 14.80.−j

*tatsuru@post.kek.jp

okadan@post.kek.jp

tmichihi@post.kek.jp