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Centauros and/or Chirons as evaporating mini black holes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is argued that the signals expected from the evaporation of mini black holes - predicted in TeV-scale gravity models with large extra dimensions and possibly produced in ultra high energy collisions in the atmosphere - have characteristics quite similar to the ones of the Centauro events, an old mystery of cosmic ray physics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411081,
  title  = {Centauros and/or Chirons as evaporating mini black holes},
  author = {Theodore N. Tomaras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411081},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Contribution to the proceedings of the XIII ISVHECRI, Pylos, Greece, Sept. 2004. Four pages, LaTeX