Black Holes at Future Colliders and in Cosmic Rays
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One of the most dramatic consequences of low-scale (~1 TeV) quantum gravity would be copious production of mini black holes at future accelerators and in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray interactions. Hawking radiation of these black holes is constrained mainly to our (3+1)-dimensional world and results in their rapid evaporation. We review selected topics in the mini-black-hole phenomenology, such as production rates at colliders and in cosmic rays, Hawking radiation as a sensitive probe of the dimensionality of extra space, as well as an exciting possibility of finding new physics in the decays of black holes.
To appear in Proc. International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS 2003, Aachen, Germany (July 17-23, 2003). 5 pages, 3 figures
To appear in Proc. International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS 2003, Aachen, Germany (July 17-23, 2003). 5 pages, 3 figures