Hunting Strings at LHC
Oliver Schlotterer (Universität Potsdam)

Phenomenological aspects of weakly coupled low mass string theory become testable at the Large Hadron Collider provided that the string mass is as low as a few TeV -- which is possible in scenarios with large extra dimensions. I will give a brief introduction to string theory and Standard Model realizations therein and then discuss four- and five point scattering processes involving quarks and gluons at the leading order of string perturbation theory. Particular emphasis will be put on their model-independent, universal features. These amplitudes exhibit resonant behaviour at the parton center of mass energies equal to the masses of stringy vibration modes and might therefore provide a first experimental evidence for string theory in the near future.