Hunting for TeV Scale Strings at the LHC
Itzhak Bars

TL;DR
This paper reviews historical and recent approaches to detecting TeV scale strings at the LHC, emphasizing a model-independent parametrization of scattering amplitudes and cross sections for Standard Model particles.
Contribution
It revisits and makes accessible decades-old phenomenological models of TeV scale strings, connecting them with modern motivations like D-branes and large extra dimensions.
Findings
Resonance predictions consistent with string behavior
Matching low-energy effective field theory with string-inspired models
Historical models are relevant for current LHC searches
Abstract
In this paper I review the possibility of TeV scale strings that may be detectable by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This possibility was investigated extensively in a series of phenomenological papers during 1984-1985 in connection with the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). The work was mainly based on a model independent systematic parametrization of scattering amplitudes and cross sections, for Standard Model particles, quarks and leptons, that were assumed to behave like strings, while gluons, photons, were taken as elementary. By using Veneziano type beta functions consistent with crossing symmetry, duality and Regge behavior, bosonic or fermionic resonances in each channel were included, while the low energy behavior was matched to effective field theory non-renormalizable interactions consistent with the Standard Model SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) gauge symmetry as well as…
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TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Computational Physics and Python Applications · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
