Presently there is a big interest in models with additional dimensions which might provide solution to the gauge hierarchy problem. In Randall-Sundrum model typeII particles can be trapped on the brane, where they are expected to be metastable, they decay into continuum Kaluza-Klein modes. From the point of view of an observer in 3d-”brane” the particle disappear into the bulk of the additional dimension.
Tunneling of a particle through extra-dimension (V. A. Rubakov)
In a recent paper it was pointed out that this mechanism could result in a disappearing of ortho-positronium into the bulk of additional dimensions. The probability was calculated to be: 10-9<Br(o-Ps extradim)<10-8 which is an experimentally interesting region! BACK TO POSITRONIUM AS A PROBE FOR NEW PHYSICS...
Last update: P.Crivelli - November 14, 2004
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