Black holes in many dimensions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: testing critical string theory.

We consider black hole production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a generic scenario with many extra dimensions where the standard model fields are confined to a brane. With approximately 20 dimensions the hierarchy problem is shown to be naturally solved without the need for large compactification radii. We find that in such a scenario the properties of black holes can be used to determine the number of extra dimensions, .

Phenomenology of the randall-sundrum gauge hierarchy model.

We explore the phenomenology of the localized gravity model of Randall and Sundrum where a 5-dimensional nonfactorizable geometry generates the gauge hierarchy by an exponential function called a warp factor. The Kaluza-Klein (KK) tower of gravitons in this scenario has different properties from those in factorizable models. We derive the KK graviton interactions with the standard model fields and obtain constraints from their direct production at hadron colliders as well as from virtual KK exchanges.