Discovering New Physics in the Decays of Black Holes

Greg Landsberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 181801 – Published 19 April 2002
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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 100GeV. 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.

  • Received 5 December 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.181801

©2002 American Physical Society

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Greg Landsberg

  • Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912

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Vol. 88, Iss. 18 — 6 May 2002

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