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TeV Scale Strings and Scattering Amplitudes at the LHC

We study aspects of TeV string scale models of intersecting D-branes. The gauge bosons arise from strings ending on stacks of D-branes, whereas chiral matter arises from strings stretched between intersecting D-branes. Our focus is on scattering amplitudes (at tree-level), Regge states (string excitations), and collider phenomenology. Achieving a low string scale is possible in models of Large extra dimensions. At the LHC, a low enough string scale implies that cross sections will deviate from their standard model predictions. Moreover, Regge states as well as Kaluza-Klein states and winding states may be produced. In a large class of intersecting D-brane models, the quark-gluon amplitudes with at most 2 quarks turn out to be independent of the geometry of the extra dimensions. Therefore these type of amplitudes, which we call "universal amplitudes", are model independent. The universal amplitudes involve exchanges of Regge states only, whereas amplitudes with more then 2 quarks also involve exchanges of KK and winding states. The main computational part of this work is concerned with suggesting methods to calculate the decay widths of the Regge states, and with the formalism for treating amplitudes containing exchanges of higher spin particles.