Discovering New Physics in the Decays of Black Holes
- 19 April 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 88 (18) , 181801
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.88.181801
Abstract
If the scale of quantum gravity is near a TeV, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be producing one black hole (BH) about every second, thus qualifying as a BH factory. With the Hawking temperature of a few hundred GeV, these rapidly evaporating BHs may produce new, undiscovered particles with masses . The probability of producing a heavy particle in the decay depends on its mass only weakly, in contrast with the exponentially suppressed direct production. Furthermore, backgrounds in the BH sample can be made small. Using the Higgs boson as an example, we show that it may be found at the LHC on the first day of its operation, even with incomplete detectors.
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