Quasistable black holes at the Large Hadron Collider

2001/09/30 by Sabine Hossenfelder, Stefan Hofmann, Marcus Bleicher +2 · 81 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Collider #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Extra dimensions #Hadron #Large Hadron Collider #Large extra dimension #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.66.101502

published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 66(10) (American Physical Society) · 4 pages, 3 figures, typos removed, omitted factors included, accepted for publication

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Abstract

We address the production of black holes at the CERN LHC and their time evolution in space-times with compactified spacelike extra dimensions. It is shown that black holes with lifetimes of several hundred fm/c can be produced at LHC. The possibility of quasistable remnants is discussed.

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