Extra Dimensions and their Ultraviolet Completion

Abstract

Large extra dimensions are one of the constructions addressing the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model. Their main theoretical and phenomenological challenge is that already predicting LHC effects requires an ultraviolet completion of TeV-scale gravity. In these lecture notes we first give a basic introduction into TeV-scale gravity models and their collider effects and then discuss possible ultraviolet completions, like string theory and fixed-point gravity.

Comments: talk at Workshop on Continuum and Lattice Approaches to Quantum Gravity, University of Sussex, 2008