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Black hole evaporation with separated fermions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

In models with a low quantum gravity scale, a well-motivated reason to expect quark and lepton fields are localized but physically separated is to avoid proton decay. This could happen in a ``fat-brane'' or in an additional, orthogonal 1/TeV sized dimension in which the gauge and Higgs fields live throughout. Black holes with masses of order the quantum gravity scale are therefore expected to evaporate non-universally, preferentially radiating directly into quarks or leptons but not both. Should black holes be copiously produced at a future hadron collider, we find the ratio of final state jets to charged leptons to photons is 113:8:1, which differs from previous analyses that assumed all standard model fields live at the same point in the extra dimensional space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0207003,
  title  = {Black hole evaporation with separated fermions},
  author = {Tao Han and Graham D. Kribs and Bob McElrath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0207003},
  year   = {2009}
}

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