Published July 27, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Critical comment on the recent microscopic black hole search at the LHC

  • 1. Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 500-757 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

Recently the CMS Collaboration at the LHC reported 'the first direct limit on black hole production at a particle accelerator' using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb-1 of pp collision at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV (Khachatryan et al., 2011) . Even though the result has a strong impact on future searches, the interpretation lacks enough theoretical support. In this Letter, we show that the parameter range which was considered by the CMS Collaboration is actually out of the validity range of semi-classical black hole picture so that the Monte Carlo simulation result which was crucially used in the analysis still needs further solid scientific basis.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.06.039

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DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.06.039;
arXiv
arXiv:1104.5129v2;
PII
S0370-2693(11)00660-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
701
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 587-590
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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