Collider searches for non-perturbative low-scale gravity states

by Prof. Douglas Gingrich

Friday 23 Feb 2018, 10:00 → 11:00 Asia/Shanghai

A418 (IHEP)

Abstract: The possibility of producing non-perturbative low-scale gravity states in collider experiments was first discussed in 1998. The ATLAS and CMS experiments have searched for non-perturbative low-scale gravity states using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with a proton--proton centre of mass energy of 13 TeV. These experiments have now seriously confronted the possibility of producing non-perturbative low-scale gravity states which were proposed 20 years ago. I will summarise the results of the searches, give a personal view of what they mean, and present some models in which low-scale gravity would not have yet been seen at the LHC. About the speaker: - Graduated PhD University of Toronto on the ARGUS experiment at DESY. - Research Associate and College Lecturer at Oxford University on the ZEUS experiment at DESY. - Professor at University of Alberta since 1992 on the ATLAS collaboration. - Other collaborations include E516 Fermilab, OPAL CERN, RD2 CERN, STACEE Sandia, DEAP SNOlab. Activities on ATLAS (25 years): - 15 years electronics for liquid argon calorimeter - 4 years phenomenology of quantum black holes - 4 years physics analysis on quantum black holes - 2 years MC production manager and ATLAS-Canada computing coordinator

Slides gingrich-IHEP.pdf