Centauros and/or Chirons as evaporating mini black holes
arXiv:hep-ph/0411081
Abstract
It is argued that the signals expected from the evaporation of mini black holes - predicted in TeV-scale gravity models with large extra dimensions and possibly produced in ultra high energy collisions in the atmosphere - have characteristics quite similar to the ones of the Centauro events, an old mystery of cosmic ray physics.
Contribution to the proceedings of the XIII ISVHECRI, Pylos, Greece, Sept. 2004. Four pages, LaTeX