Charged Black Hole Remnants at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-15 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We investigate possible signatures of long-lived (or stable) charged black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, we find that black hole remnants are characterised by quite low speed. Due to this fact, the charged remnants could, in some cases, be very clearly distinguished from the background events, exploiting dE/dX measurements. We also compare the estimate energy released by such remnants with that of typical Standard Model particles, using the Bethe-Bloch formula.
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@article{arxiv.1303.3150,
title = {Charged Black Hole Remnants at the LHC},
author = {G. L. Alberghi and L. Bellagamba and X. Calmet and R. Casadio and O. Micu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3150},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 9 figures, minor changes to match the accepted version to appear in EPJC