Unravelling Strings at the LHC

Understand

We construct LHC signature footprints for four semi-realistic string/$M$ theory vacua with an MSSM visible sector.

• We find that they all give rise to limited regions in LHC signature space, and are qualitatively different from each other for understandable reasons.
• We also propose a technique in which correlations of LHC signatures can be effectively used to distinguish among these string theory vacua.
• We expect the technique to be useful for more general string vacua.