High energy colliders as black hole factories: The end of short distance physics
High energy colliders as black hole factories: The end of short distance physics
If the fundamental Planck scale is of order of a TeV, as is the case in some extra-dimension scenarios, future hadron colliders such as the CERN Large Hadron Collider will be black hole factories. The nonperturbative process of black hole formation and decay by Hawking evaporation gives rise to spectacular …