Catfish: A Monte Carlo simulator for black holes at the LHC

2006/09/30 by M. Cavaglià, M. Cavaglia, R. Godang +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph #hep-th #physics.data-an

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2007.05.011

published as Comput.Phys.Commun.177:506-517,2007 · 22 pages, 8 eps figures. Matches version already published in Computer Physics Communications. CATFISH code and documentation are available at http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/GR/catfish

openalex publication_date 2007/06/06 · arxiv created 2007/07/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

We present a new Fortran Monte Carlo generator to simulate black hole events at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The generator interfaces to the PYTHIA Monte Carlo fragmentation code. The physics of the BH generator includes, but not limited to, inelasticity effects, exact field emissivities, corrections to semiclassical black hole evaporation and gravitational energy loss at formation. These features are essential to realistically reconstruct the detector response and test different models of black hole formation and decay at the LHC.

Citations

• Black Hole Production at a TeV
• A Model for High Energy Scattering in Quantum Gravity
• Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension
• Black hole production at the CERN LHC: String balls and black holes fromppand lead-lead collisions
• Particle creation by black holes
• Probing quantum gravity effects in black holes at LHC

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