Collider Physics and Cosmology

TL;DR

The paper discusses how the Large Hadron Collider's upcoming high-energy collisions could advance understanding of gravity, dark matter, and dark energy, bridging particle physics and cosmology.

Contribution

It reviews potential insights from the LHC into gravity and early universe phenomena, emphasizing connections to dark matter and dark energy.

Findings

LHC may reveal new insights into gravity and cosmology

Potential breakthroughs in understanding dark matter and dark energy

Highlights prospects for interdisciplinary discoveries

Abstract

In the coming year, the Large Hadron Collider will begin colliding protons at energies nearly an order of magnitude beyond the current frontier. The LHC will, of course, provide unprecedented opportunities to discover new particle physics. Less well-known, however, is that the LHC may also provide insights about gravity and the early universe. I review some of these connections, focusing on the topics of dark matter and dark energy, and highlight outstanding prospects for breakthroughs at the interface of particle physics and cosmology.