CHARYBDIS: a black hole event generator

2003/07/29 by Christopher M. Harris, C. M. Harris, P. Richardson +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/033

published as JHEP0308:033,2003 · 14 pages, 3 postscript figures. Program available from http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/montecarlo/leshouches/generators/charybdis/ . Footnote and two references added

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Abstract

CHARYBDIS is an event generator which simulates the production and decay of miniature black holes at hadronic colliders as might be possible in certain extra dimension models. It interfaces via the Les Houches accord to general purpose Monte Carlo programs like HERWIG and PYTHIA which then perform the parton evolution and hadronization. The event generator includes the extra-dimensional `grey-body' effects as well as the change in the temperature of the black hole as the decay progresses. Various options for modelling the Planck-scale terminal decay are provided.

Citations

• Black hole multiplicity at particle colliders (Do black holes radiate mainly on the brane?)
• Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension
• Particle creation by black holes
• PYTHIA 6.3 Physics and Manual

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• Black Holes in Many Dimensions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Testing Critical String Theory
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