Published October 5, 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

Probing a superlight gravitino in photon-photon collisions

  • 1. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Bombay-400005, India

Description

A superlight (of mass ∼M/sub W/2M/sub Pl//sup -1/) gravitino may have observable consequences for high-energy reactions at the teraelectronvolt scale. Tree-level unitarity is shown to break down there for two-photon production of a pair of longitudinally polarized gravitinos. The cross section rises fast with energy and should be measurable at around 100 GeV. A double-tag search for ee-bar→ee-bar+''nothing'' will push up the lower bound on the gravitino mass or detect a superlight gravitino

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
59
Journal Issue
14
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
1517-1520
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA