Hadrons as Signature of Black Hole Production at the LHC

Abstract

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 p-p 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.

references added, version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B

References in corpus (3)

• High-p_T Tomography of d+Au and Au+Au at SPS, RHIC, and LHC
• Black hole formation in the grazing collision of high-energy particles
• Energy loss in high energy heavy ion collisions from the Hydro+Jet model

Cited by in corpus (36)

• Black Holes in Theories with Large Extra Dimensions: a Review
• Signatures in the Planck Regime
• Hawking Radiation from a (4+n)-dimensional Black Hole: Exact Results for the Schwarzschild Phase
• Will we observe black holes at LHC?
• Gravitational energy loss in high energy particle collisions: ultrarelativistic plunge into a multidimensional black hole
• Bulk and Brane Decay of a (4+n)-Dimensional Schwarzschild-De-Sitter Black Hole: Scalar Radiation
• Exact Results for Evaporating Black Holes in Curvature-Squared Lovelock Gravity: Gauss-Bonnet Greybody Factors
• Black Hole Remnants at the LHC
• Black Holes at Future Colliders and Beyond: a Topical Review
• Greybody Factors for Brane Scalar Fields in a Rotating Black-Hole Background
• Brane Decay of a (4+n)-Dimensional Rotating Black Hole. II: spin-1 particles
• Inelastic Black Hole Production and Large Extra Dimensions
• TeV black hole fragmentation and detectability in extensive air showers
• Suppressed Black Hole Production from Minimal Length
• Probing the minimal length scale by precision tests of the muon g-2
• Brane Decay of a (4+n)-Dimensional Rotating Black Hole. III: spin-1/2 particles
• Black hole multiplicity at particle colliders (Do black holes radiate mainly on the brane?)
• The hadronization of partons
• High Energy Physics in the Atmosphere: Phenomenology of Cosmic Ray Air Showers
• Quest for Localized 4-D Black Holes in Brane Worlds. II : Removing the bulk singularities
• Exploring Higher Dimensional Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider
• Greybody factors in a rotating black-hole background-II : fermions and gauge bosons
• Black Holes at LHC?
• Cosmic Ray Signals from Mini Black Holes in Models with Extra Dimensions: An Analytical/Monte Carlo Study
• SUSY Production From TeV Scale Blackhole at LHC
• Interaction of a TeV Scale Black Hole with the Quark-Gluon Plasma at LHC
• Can Centauros or Chirons be the first observations of evaporating mini black holes?
• Higgs Boson Production from Black Holes at the LHC
• Stable TeV - Black Hole Remnants at the LHC: Discovery through Di-Jet Suppression, Mono-Jet Emission and a Supersonic Boom in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Top Quark Production from Black Holes at the CERN LHC
• Dynamically self-regular quantum harmonic black holes
• Mini Black Holes in the first year of the LHC
• Hawking evaporation of cosmogenic black holes in TeV-gravity models
• Higgs Production and Decay from TeV Scale Black Holes at the LHC
• String Theory at LHC Using Top Quarks From String Balls
• Self-regular black holes quantized by means of an analogue to hydrogen atoms