Searches for gravitational effects at the TeV scale with the ATLAS detector

The Standard Model presently does not explain why the gravitational force is weaker than the other forces. New physics models, for example those postulating the existence of extra dimensions, have been proposed to address this. This paper describes searches for gravitational effects performed by the ATLAS collaboration using data from proton-proton collisions recorded in 2011 at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV and in 2012 at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV, provided by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).