Black Holes at the LHC
Abstract
If the scale of quantum gravity is near a TeV, the LHC will be producing one black hole (BH) about every second. The BH decays into prompt, hard photons and charged leptons is a clean signature with low background. The absence of significant missing energy allows the reconstruction of the mass of the decaying BH. The correlation between the BH mass and its temperature, deduced from the energy spectrum of the decay products, can test experimentally the higher dimensional Hawking evaporation law. It can also determine the number of large new dimensions and the scale of quantum gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0106295,
title = {Black Holes at the LHC},
author = {Savas Dimopoulos and Greg Landsberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0106295},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL. Results presented at the Les Houches Workshop "Physics at the TeV Colliders" (May 30, 2001) and the "Avatars of M-Theory" conference, ITP at Santa Barbara (June 7, 2001), http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/mtheory_c01/dimopoulos