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In TeV-scale gravity, scattering of particles with center-of-mass energy of the order of a few TeV can lead to the creation of nonperturbative, extended, higher-dimensional gravitational objects: Branes. Neutral or charged, spinning or spinless, Einsteinian or supersymmetric, low-energy branes could dramatically change our picture of high-energy physics. Will we create branes in future particle colliders, observe them from ultra high energy cosmic rays, and discover them to be dark matter?
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Ahn, EJ., Cavaglià, M. Essay: A New Era in High-Energy Physics. General Relativity and Gravitation 34, 2037–2042 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021123131985
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