Heavy particles at the LHC and in cosmic rays

Abstract

Direct production of heavy particles and their indirect signatures, detected at the LHC as anomalous events, are considered. Analogous anomalous events at comparable c.m.s. energies were detected in cosmic-ray experiments several decades ago. All these exotic phenomena and processes can be interpreted from a common viewpoint by assuming the production of quark–gluon blobs with large orbital momenta which hinder the emission of light rather than heavy quarks including the top quarks. The prospects for testing this model in the LHC experiments are discussed.