2013/02/11 by Piero Nicolini, Jonas Mureika, Nicolini, Piero +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1302.2640
3 pages, proceedings of the 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, July 1-7, 2012; v2 additional references
arxiv created 2013/02/26 · arxiv updated 2013/02/27
We review the phenomenology of mini black holes at colliders in light of the latest data from the LHC. By improving the conventional production cross-section, we show that the current non-observation of black hole signals can be explained in terms of quantum gravity effects. In the most optimistic case, black hole production could take place at a scale slightly above the LHC design energy. We also analyse possible new signatures of quantum-corrected Planck-scale black holes: in contrast to the semiclassical scenario the emission would take place in terms of soft particles mostly on the brane.