Black Holes in Many Dimensions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Testing Critical String Theory
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: JoAnne L. Hewett, Ben Lillie, Thomas G. Rizzo
Institution: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1978405121