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Hot Paper in Physics
"New dimensions at a millimeter to a
fermi and superstrings at a TeV," by Ignatios Antoniadis, Nima
Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and Gia Dvali, Physics Letters B,
436(3,4):257-63, 24 September 1998.
[Authors' affiliations: Ecole Polytechnique,
Palaiseau, France; Stanford University, California; ICTP, Trieste, Italy]
Abstract: "Recently, a new
framework for solving the hierarchy problem has been proposed which does not
rely on low energy supersymmetry or technicolor. The gravitational and gauge
interactions unite at the electroweak scale, and the observed weakness of
gravity at long distances is due to the existence of large new spatial
dimensions. In this letter, we show that this framework can be embedded in
string theory. These models have a perturbative description in the context of
type I string theory. The gravitational sector consists of closed strings
propagating in the higher-dimensional bulk, while ordinary matter consists of
open strings living in D3-branes. This scenario raises the exciting
possibility that the LHC and NLC will experimentally study ordinary aspects of
string physics such as the production of narrow Regge-excitations of all
standard model particles, as well as more exotic phenomena involving strong
gravity such as the production of black holes. The new dimensions can be
probed by events with large missing energy carried off by gravitons escaping
into the bulk. We finally discuss some important issues of model building,
such as proton stability, gauge coupling unification and supersymmetry
breaking."
This 1998 report from Physics Letters B
was cited 39 times in current journal articles indexed in the
ISI database during September-October 2000. During that two-month period, this
was the third-most-cited paper in physics (excluding reviews) published in the
last two years. Prior to the most recent bimonthly count, citations to the
paper have accrued as follows:
July-August 2000: 25 citations
May-June 2000: 26
March-April 2000: 36
January-February 2000: 32
November-December 1999: 23
September-October 1999: 16
July-August 1999: 15
May-June 1999: 11
March-April 1999: 3
Total citations to date: 226
SOURCE: Hot
Papers Database (Available from the ISI
Research Services Group in a CD-ROM version containing data on
hundreds of highly cited papers published during the last two years.
User interface permits searching by author, organization, journal,
field, and more. Total citations, as well as citations accrued during
successive bimonthly periods, can be assessed and graphed. Database is
combined with subscription to the ISI newsletter Science
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most recent bimonthly data are mailed with each new issue, six times a
year.)
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