Searching for family-number conserving neutral gauge bosons from extra dimensions
J.M. Frère+, M.V. Libanov*, E.Ya. Nugaev*, S.V. Troitsky*
+Service de Physique Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium
*Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, 117312 Moscow, Russia
PACS: 12.60.-i, 13.85.-t
Abstract
Previous studies have shown how the three generations of the Standard
Model fermions can arise from a single generation in
more than four dimensions, and
how off-diagonal neutral couplings arise for gauge-boson Kaluza-Klein
recurrences.
These couplings conserve family number in the leading approximation.
While an existing example, built on a spherical geometry,
suggests a high compactification scale, we conjecture that the overall
structure is generic, and work out possible signatures at colliders,
compatible with rare decays data.