2005/03/31 by JoAnne L. Hewett, Ben Lillie, Thomas G. Rizzo
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.261603
published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 95 (2005) 261603 · 5 pages, 4 figures. Small corrections + added refs, replaced with published version
openalex publication_date 2005/12/23 · arxiv created 2006/02/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider black hole production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a generic scenario with many extra dimensions where the standard model fields are confined to a brane. With approximately 20 dimensions the hierarchy problem is shown to be naturally solved without the need for large compactification radii. We find that in such a scenario the properties of black holes can be used to determine the number of extra dimensions, . In particular, we demonstrate that measurements of the decay distributions of such black holes at the LHC can determine if is significantly larger than 6 or 7 with high confidence and thus can probe one of the critical properties of string theory compactifications.