Will we observe black holes at the LHC?

2003/05/31 by Marco Cavaglia, M. Cavagli, Saurya Das +1 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Black hole thermodynamics #Charged black hole #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electron #Entropy (arrow of time) #Extremal black hole #Fuzzball #Hawking radiation #Large Hadron Collider #Large extra dimension #Lepton #Micro black hole #Missing energy #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics #Physics #Planck #Planck length #Planck scale #Quantum #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Sonic black hole #String theory #Theoretical physics #Virtual black hole #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/15/101

published as Class.Quant.Grav.20:L205-L212,2003 · 5 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes to match version to appear in Class. Quant. Grav

arxiv created 2003/06/27 · openalex publication_date 2003/07/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The generalized uncertainty principle, motivated by string theory and non-commutative quantum mechanics, suggests significant modifications to the Hawking temperature and evaporation process of black holes. For extra-dimensional gravity with Planck scale O (TeV), this leads to important changes in the formation and detection of black holes at the large hadron collider. The number of particles produced in Hawking evaporation decreases substantially. The evaporation ends when the black-hole mass is Planck scale, leaving a remnant and a consequent missing energy of order TeV. Furthermore, the minimum energy for black-hole formation in collisions is increased, and could even be increased to such an extent that no black holes are formed at LHC energies.

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