Generation and Validation of Monte Carlo Dilepton Events for Large Extra Dimensions
Advisor(s)
Dr. Peter Dong, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Dr. Lenny Spiegal, Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Location
Room A149
Start Date
26-4-2019 10:05 AM
End Date
26-4-2019 10:20 AM
Abstract
The idea that the universe may have more than three dimensions originally assumed the extra dimensions appeared at the scale of the Planck length. However, Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali proposed a theory of extra dimensions as large as a millimeter that could help explain why gravity is much weaker than other interactions in the Standard Model. Large extra dimensions modify dilepton interactions by allowing for graviton exchange as well as photon and Z exchange for high-mass events. This causes a non-resonant enhancement in the rate of dilepton events. Our study generates Monte Carlo events to determine how large extra dimensions would modify expected distributions, laying the groundwork to search for them.
Generation and Validation of Monte Carlo Dilepton Events for Large Extra Dimensions
Room A149
The idea that the universe may have more than three dimensions originally assumed the extra dimensions appeared at the scale of the Planck length. However, Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali proposed a theory of extra dimensions as large as a millimeter that could help explain why gravity is much weaker than other interactions in the Standard Model. Large extra dimensions modify dilepton interactions by allowing for graviton exchange as well as photon and Z exchange for high-mass events. This causes a non-resonant enhancement in the rate of dilepton events. Our study generates Monte Carlo events to determine how large extra dimensions would modify expected distributions, laying the groundwork to search for them.