Published March 2012
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Journal article
Black hole remnants at the LHC
- 1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna (Italy)
- 2. Universita di Bologna, Dipartimento di Fisica, Bologna (Italy)
Description
We investigate possible signatures of black hole events at the LHC in the hypothesis that such objects will not evaporate completely, but leave a stable remnant. For the purpose of defining a reference scenario, we have employed the publicly available Monte Carlo generator CHARYBDIS2, in which the remnant's behavior is mostly determined by kinematic constraints and conservation of some quantum numbers, such as the baryon number. Our findings show that electrically neutral remnants are highly favored and a significantly larger amount of missing transverse momentum is to be expected with respect to the case of complete decay. (orig.)
Availability note (English)
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1957-6Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- European Physical Journal. C
- Journal Volume
- 72
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-9
- ISSN
- 1434-6044
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 43051256
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BARYON NUMBER; BLACK HOLES; C CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONSERVATION LAWS; ENERGY SPECTRA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE PRODUCTION; MULTIPLICITY; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; PARTICLE DECAY; PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM NUMBERS; REST MASS; TEV RANGE 01-10; TEV RANGE 10-100; TRANSVERSE ENERGY; TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; COMPUTER CODES; DECAY; ENERGY; ENERGY RANGE; HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; LINEAR MOMENTUM; MASS; NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; SIMULATION; SPECTRA; TEV RANGE