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String Physics and Large Extra Dimensions at Low Energies

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Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAII,volume 34))

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In how many dimensions do we live? Could they be more than the four we are aware of? If so, why don’t we see the other dimensions? Is there a way to detect them?. While the possibility of extra-dimensions has been considered by physicists for long time, a compelling reason for their existence has arisen with string theory. It seems that a quantum theory of gravity requires that we live in more than four dimensions, probably in ten or eleven dimensions. The remaining (space-like) six or seven dimensions are hidden to us: observed particles do not propagate in them. The theory does not tell us yet why four and only four have been accessible to us. However, it predicts that this is only a low-energy effect: with increasing energy, particles which propagate in a higher dimensional space could be produced. What is the value of the needed high energy scale? could it be just close by, at reach of near future experiments?

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Antoniadis, I. (2001). String Physics and Large Extra Dimensions at Low Energies. In: Branco, G.C., Shafi, Q., Silva-Marcos, J.I. (eds) Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology. NATO Science Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0676-7_19

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