Quantum black holes with charge, colour, and spin at the LHC

Abstract

In low-scale gravity scenarios, quantum black holes could be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provided the Planck scale is not higher than a few TeV. Based on fundamental principles and a few basic assumptions, we have constructed a model for quantum black hole production and decay in proton-proton collisions. By performing a detailed particle-level simulation at LHC energies, we have estimated cross sections and branching fractions for final-state particle topologies that would uniquely identify quantum black holes in LHC detectors. If the Planck scale is about a TeV, even with the most pessimistic assumptions, the rates for quantum black hole production are estimated to be above backgrounds, and some of the final-particle states are not found in Standard Model processes. Our results could form the starting point for a detailed investigation of quantum black holes by the LHC experiments.

bugs in some branching fractions fixed, updates based on comments

References in corpus (16)

• PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
• Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale
• Black Hole Bound on the Number of Species and Quantum Gravity at LHC
• Black Holes and Quantum Gravity at the LHC
• BlackMax: A black-hole event generator with rotation, recoil, split branes and brane tension
• Colorful quantum black holes at the LHC
• Phenomenology of 10^32 Dark Sectors
• Search for Large Extra Dimensions via Single Photon plus Missing Energy Final States at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
• Phenomenology of Production and Decay of Spinning Extra-Dimensional Black Holes at Hadron Colliders
• Black hole formation in the head-on collision of ultrarelativistic charges
• A Black Hole Conjecture and Rare Decays in Theories with Low Scale Gravity
• Study of highly-excited string states at the Large Hadron Collider
• Black Hole Cross Section at the Large Hadron Collider
• Quantum Gravity Effects in Black Holes at the LHC
• Apparent horizon formation in the head-on collision of gyratons
• Micro Black Holes and the Democratic Transition

Cited by in corpus (44)

• Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for new phenomena in the dijet mass distribution using $p-p$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for resonances and quantum black holes using dijet mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
• Search for new phenomena in dijet events using 37 fb${}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected at $\sqrt{s}=$13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for New Phenomena in Dijet Mass and Angular Distributions from $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
• Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139 fb${}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider
• Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
• Search for narrow resonances and quantum black holes in inclusive and b-tagged dijet mass spectra from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
• Search for new physics in dijet angular distributions using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV and constraints on dark matter and other models
• Search for new phenomena in photon+jet events collected in proton--proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for Quantum Black-Hole Production in High-Invariant-Mass Lepton+Jet Final States Using Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and the ATLAS Detector
• Search for lepton-flavor violation in different-flavor, high-mass final states in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Exploration at the high-energy frontier: ATLAS Run~2 searches investigating the exotic jungle beyond the Standard Model
• Search for new phenomena with photon+jet events in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for black holes and sphalerons in high-multiplicity final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
• Search for black holes and other new phenomena in high-multiplicity final states in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
• Search for new physics with dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
• Search for new phenomena in different-flavour high-mass dilepton final states in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for lepton flavour violating decays of heavy resonances and quantum black holes to an e-mu pair in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
• Search for lepton-flavor violating decays of heavy resonances and quantum black holes to e$\mu$ final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
• Microcanonical description of (micro) black holes
• Signatures of microscopic black holes and extra dimensions at future neutrino telescopes
• Search for new phenomena in high-mass final states with a photon and a jet from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for heavy resonances and quantum black holes in e$\mu$, e$\tau$, and $\mu \tau$ final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
• Pursuit of paired dijet resonances in the Run 2 dataset with ATLAS
• Quantum Gravity Effects On Charged Micro Black Holes Thermodynamics
• Quantum Black Holes from Cosmic Rays
• Search for new physics in the $\tau$ lepton plus missing transverse momentum final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
• Search for lepton-flavour violation in high-mass dilepton final states using 139 ${\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Large Star/Rose Extra Dimension with Small Leaves/Petals
• Affect of brane thickness on microscopic tidal-charged black holes
• A Comparative Study of Z${}^{\prime }$ mediated Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at future lepton colliders
• Direct photon production as a probe of quarks chromoelectric and chromomagnetic dipole moments at the LHC
• Black stars induced by matter on a brane: exact solutions
• Discovery and spectroscopy of dark matter and dark sectors with microscopic black holes at next generation colliders
• Collider searches for non-perturbative low-scale gravity states
• Quantum black holes in the horizon quantum mechanics model at the Large Hadron Collider
• Search for quantum black hole production in lepton+jet final states using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Search for R-Parity-Violation-Induced Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at Future Lepton Colliders
• Search for resonances in events with photon and jet final states in proton-proton collisions at $sqrts$ = 13 TeV
• Charged Massive Particle's Tunneling From Charged Non-Rotating Micro Black Hole
• Natural Cutoffs effect on Charged Rotating TeV-Scale Black Hole Thermodynamics
• Searches for New High-Mass Resonances Decaying to Fermions at the LHC