2005/09/19 by Malcolm Fairbairn, Fairbairn, Malcolm · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0509191
8 pages, 1 figure e
arxiv created 2005/09/19 · openalex publication_date 2005/09/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is argued that in the context of TeV gravity with large extra dimensions, excited string states produced in colliders and in the interaction of cosmic rays with the atmosphere may decay preferentially into invisible bulk modes, rather than visible gauge fields on the brane. This contrast to the black hole case comes about because of the absence of a relationship between physical size and temperature for string ball states. We estimate the effect of this upon the number of events predicted at cosmic ray observatories and colliders.