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Unparticle-Enhanced Black Holes at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Based on the idea that tensor unparticles can enhance the gravitational interactions between standard model particles, potential black hole formation in high energy collisions is examined. Modifications to the horizon radius rHr_H are derived, and the corresponding geometric cross-sections of such objects are calculated. It is shown that rHr_H increases dramatically to the electroweak scale for masses MBH110M_{BH} \sim 1-10 TeV, yielding a geometric cross-section σBH=πrH2\sigma_{BH}=\pi r_H^2 on the order of leq50leq 50 pb. This suggests that unparticle physics provides a mechanism for black hole formation in future accelerators, without the requirement of extra spatial dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1786,
  title  = {Unparticle-Enhanced Black Holes at the LHC},
  author = {J. R. Mureika},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1786},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

15 pp, 2 figs (pdfLaTeX); v2 minor changes include some added references and discussion of new literature; to appear in Phys. Lett. B