Production and evaporation of Planck scale black holes at the LHC

Abstract

We review the phenomenology of mini black holes at colliders in light of the latest data from the LHC. By improving the conventional production cross-section, we show that the current non-observation of black hole signals can be explained in terms of quantum gravity effects. In the most optimistic case, black hole production could take place at a scale slightly above the LHC design energy. We also analyse possible new signatures of quantum-corrected Planck-scale black holes: in contrast to the semiclassical scenario the emission would take place in terms of soft particles mostly on the brane.

3 pages, proceedings of the 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, July 1-7, 2012; v2 additional references