2006/07/24 by H. Stöcker, Horst Stoecker · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxy #Gravitational wave #Hawking radiation #Jet (fluid) #Large Hadron Collider #Luminosity #Micro black hole #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum chromodynamics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/32/12/s52
published as J.Phys.G32:S429-S438,2006 · 10 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2006/07/24 · openalex publication_date 2006/11/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The experimental signatures of TeV-mass black hole (BH) formation in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC are examined. We find that the black hole production results in a complete disappearance of all very high p T (>500 GeV) back-to-back correlated di-jets of total mass M > M f ∼ 1 TeV. We show that the subsequent Hawking decay produces multiple hard mono-jets and discuss their detection. We study the possibility of cold black hole remnant (BHR) formation of mass ∼ M f and the experimental distinguishability of scenarios with BHRs and those with complete black hole decay. Due to the rather moderate luminosity in the first year of LHC running the best chance for the observation of BHs will be the suppression of hard QCD-dijets at p T ∼ 1 TeV and for BHRs will be to search for high rigidity ionizing tracks in the ALICE TPC. Finally, we point out that stable BHRs in the LHC-storage rings might be interesting candidates for energy production by conversion of mass to Hawking radiation.