Jet signals for low mass strings at the LHC
T. Taylor (Northeastern U)
02.07.2009 at 16:15
We consider extensions of the standard model based on open strings ending on D-branes,
with gauge bosons due to strings attached to stacks of D-branes and chiral matter due to
strings stretching between intersecting D-branes. Assuming that the fundamental string
mass scale is in the TeV range and the theory is weakly coupled, we discuss possible
signals of string physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In such D-brane constructions,
the dominant contributions to full-fledged string amplitudes for all the common QCD parton
subprocesses leading to dijets are completely independent of the details of
compactification, and can be evaluated in a parameter-free manner. We make use of these
amplitudes evaluated near the first resonant pole to determine the discovery potential of
LHC for the first Regge excitations of the quark and gluon.
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