2013/06/23 by Elizabeth Winstanley, Winstanley, Elizabeth
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.5409
PDFlatex, 15 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at "Time and Matter" conference, Venice, 4-8 March 2013, to appear in the proceedings
arxiv created 2013/06/28 · arxiv updated 2013/07/01
Over the past 15 years models with large extra space-time dimensions have been extensively studied. We have learned from these models that the energy scale of quantum gravity may be many orders of magnitude smaller than the conventional value of 1019 GeV. This raises the tantalizing prospect of probing quantum gravity effects at the LHC. Of the possible quantum gravity processes at the LHC, the formation and subsequent evaporation of microscopic black holes is one of the most spectacular. We give an overview of some of the fundamental ideas of the large extra dimensions scenarios and the resulting black hole processes at the LHC.