Can Kilic, Amitabh Lath, Keith Rose, Scott Thomas
We study a novel signature of TeV scale quantum gravity that manifests itself as an extinction of hard short distance scattering in QCD processes. The extinction behavior is due to the predominance of high-entropy intermediate states of the underlying quantum gravity theory. We model extinction using a large damping Veneziano form-factor modification of QCD scattering amplitudes that suppresses high pT scattering. We propose and demonstrate the potential of an LHC search for extinction, with a possible reach for the string scale as high as 3 TeV with 7 TeV LHC collision data, and up to 5 TeV from high-statistics 13 TeV data.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3525
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