Hadrons as signature of black hole production at the LHC
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
In models with several large extra dimensions and fundamental Planck scale of the order of 1 TeV, black holes can be produced in large numbers at LHC energies. We compute the charged hadron spectra obtained from the decay of black holes created in pp and Pb+Pb collisions at LHC. We show that hadrons from black hole decay dominate at transverse momenta p T ≳30–100 GeV/ c compared to usual QCD processes and black hole production signals are easy to identify in hadron transverse momentum spectra. Furthermore we show that a measurement of the charged hadron spectra probes Planck scales up to 5 TeV for any number of extra dimensions.Note:
- references added, version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
- p p: interaction
- scattering: heavy ion
- lead
- black hole: production
- black hole: decay
- parton: inclusive reaction
- hadron: charged particle
- transverse momentum: spectrum
- space-time: higher-dimensional
- cross section
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