Mini Black Holes at the LHC: Discovery Through Di-Jet Suppression, Mono-Jet Emission and a Supersonic Boom in the Quark-Gluon Plasma in ALICE, ATLAS and CMS

Abstract

We examine experimental signatures of TeV-mass black hole formation in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. We find that the black hole production results in a complete disappearance of all very high $p_T$ ({$>500$} GeV) back-to-back correlated di-jets of total mass {$M>M_f\sim 1$}TeV. We show that the subsequent Hawking-decay produces multiple hard mono-jets and discuss their detection. We study the possibility of cold black hole remnant (BHR) formation of mass $\sim M_f$ and the experimental distinguishability of scenarios with BHRs and those with complete black hole decay. Finally we point out that a Heckler-Kapusta-Hawking plasma may form from the emitted mono-jets. In this context we present new simulation data of Mach shocks and of the evolution of initial conditions until the freeze-out.

16 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 22nd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, La Jolla, California, 11-19 March, 2006

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