Published July 27, 2011
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Journal article
Critical comment on the recent microscopic black hole search at the LHC
Creators
- 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.2011.06.039Additional details
Identifiers
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43057355
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BLACK HOLES; CENTER-OF-MASS SYSTEM; CERN LHC; LUMINOSITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ENERGY RANGE; HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.