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The recent understanding of string theory opens the possibility that the string scale can be as low as a few TeV. The apparent weakness of gravitational interactions can then be accounted by the existence of large internal dimensions, in the submillimeter region. Furthermore, our world must be confined to live on a brane transverse to these large dimensions, with which it interacts only gravitationally. In my lectures, I describe this scenario which gives a new theoretical framework for solving the gauge hierarchy problem and the unification of all interactions. I also discuss its main properties and implications for observations at both future particle colliders, and in non-accelerator gravity experiments. Such effects are for instance the production of Kaluza–Klein resonances, graviton emission in the bulk of extra dimensions, and a radical change of gravitational forces in the submillimeter range.
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Antoniadis, I. (2003). Physics with Large Extra Dimensions and Non-Newtonian Gravity at Sub-mm Distances. In: Giulini, D.J.W., Kiefer, C., Lämmerzahl, C. (eds) Quantum Gravity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45230-0_9
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