Speaker
Douglas Gingrich
(University of Alberta (CA))
Description
Less than two decades ago, brane world scenarios offered paradigms to
reinterpret the 4-D Planck scale as an effective gravity scale arising
for a more fundamental lower gravity scale in higher dimensions. These
ideas allowed new phenomenological models to be developed and helped guide
searches for low-scale gravity at the Tevatron and LHC. One of the most
exciting outcomes of these models is the possibility to produce
non-perturbative gravitational states at the LHC. The LHC experiments
have recently publish a round of search for non-perturbative
gravitational states which seriously confront the models for the first
time. I will discuss how the models can now be view in the light of the
experimental constraints.
Primary author
Douglas Gingrich
(University of Alberta (CA))
