Colliding hadrons as cosmic membranes and possible signatures of lost momentum

Abstract

We argue that in the TeV-gravity scenario high energy hadrons colliding on the 3-brane embedded in D = 4+n-dimensional spacetime, with n dimensions smaller than the hadron size, can be considered as cosmic membranes. In the 5- dimensional case these cosmic membranes produce effects similar to cosmic strings in the 4-dimensional world. We calculate the corrections to the eikonal approximation for the gravitational scattering of partons due to the presence of effective hadron cosmic membranes. Cosmic membranes dominate the momentum lost in the longitudinal direction for colliding particles that opens new channels for particle decays.