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Black Holes at Future Colliders and in Cosmic Rays

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

One of the most dramatic consequences of low-scale (~1 TeV) quantum gravity would be copious production of mini black holes at future accelerators and in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray interactions. Hawking radiation of these black holes is constrained mainly to our (3+1)-dimensional world and results in their rapid evaporation. We review selected topics in the mini-black-hole phenomenology, such as production rates at colliders and in cosmic rays, Hawking radiation as a sensitive probe of the dimensionality of extra space, as well as an exciting possibility of finding new physics in the decays of black holes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0310034,
  title  = {Black Holes at Future Colliders and in Cosmic Rays},
  author = {Greg Landsberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0310034},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

To appear in Proc. International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS 2003, Aachen, Germany (July 17-23, 2003). 5 pages, 3 figures