Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University)

Date: Thu Feb 22, 2001, 4.30 pm (note date and location)
Location: Wean 7423

Title: Out-of-this-World Physics: Probing Quantum Gravity in the Lab

Abstract: 

Search for large spatial extra dimensions is one of the most exciting
new opportunities in our quest for the electroweak symmetry breaking
mechanism. Existing high-energy colliders (LEP and Tevatron) have
already joined these searches and set constraints on the strength of
gravity at short range. New results from the Tevatron are going to be
reviewed. The most interesting opportunities in probing large extra
dimensions will become available with the next generation of hadron
colliders: the upgraded Tevatron and especially LHC, where the ultimate
tests of the new models of gravity will be done. I'll discuss various
effects of large extra dimensions that can be seen sought
experimentally, existing limits on the properties of space with large
extra dimensions, as well as the strategies and the reach of the next
generation of Cavendish type of experiments and accelerator searches.