Timeline for Could pp Collisions in the LHC produce Gravitons?
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| Jun 3, 2017 at 18:13 | history | edited | user154997 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2017 at 17:41 | comment | added | user154997 | I was wrong actually! Best to update my answer… | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 16:24 | comment | added | Ken Abbott | But could the graviton decay g -> e+, e- and thus mess up the missing energy method. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 15:11 | comment | added | user154997 | No actually, the graviton would appear as missing energy. More precisely, pp $\to$ jet + missing energy. But there is a Standard Model background: pp $\to$ Z + jet, where Z decays to two neutrinos. So the game is then to put clever cuts on the jet kinematics to exclude as much of the background as possible. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 12:18 | comment | added | Ken Abbott | So if the LHC does indeed produce Gravitons it then has the problem of detecting them. I assume this means using some Graviton decay channel. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 12:17 | vote | accept | Ken Abbott | ||
| Jun 3, 2017 at 1:44 | history | answered | user154997 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |