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Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 161602 (2001) [4 pages]

Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider

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Savas Dimopoulos1 and Greg Landsberg2
1Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4060
2Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912

Received 28 June 2001; published 27 September 2001

If the scale of quantum gravity is near TeV, the CERN Large Hadron Collider will be producing one black hole (BH) about every second. The decays of the BHs into the final states with prompt, hard photons, electrons, or muons provide a clean signature with low background. The correlation between the BH mass and its temperature, deduced from the energy spectrum of the decay products, can test Hawking’s evaporation law and determine the number of large new dimensions and the scale of quantum gravity.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.161602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.161602
PACS:
11.10.Kk, 04.70.Dy, 13.85.Qk, 14.80.-j
 
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