Jet Extinction from Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity Effects
arXiv:1207.3525 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.016003
Abstract
The infrared-ultraviolet properties of quantum gravity suggest on very general grounds that hard short distance scattering processes are highly suppressed for center of mass scattering energies beyond the fundamental Planck scale. If this scale is not too far above the electroweak scale, these non-perturbative quantum gravity effects could be manifest as an extinction of high transverse momentum jets at the LHC. To model these effects we implement an Extinction Monte Carlo modification of the Pythia event generator based on a large damping Veneziano form factor modification of hard QCD scattering processes. Using this we illustrate the leading effects of extinction on the inclusive jet transverse momentum spectrum at the LHC. We estimate that an extinction mass scale of up to roughly half the center of mass beam collision energy could be probed with high statistics data.
25 pages, 5 figures. v2: Some modifications, extended description of statistical methods. v3: Minor modifications to the text. v4: discussion of analyticity properties expanded. matches journal version
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