Black holes in many dimensions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: testing critical string theory |
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Authors: | Hewett JoAnne L Lillie Ben Rizzo Thomas G |
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Institution: | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. hewett@slac.stanford.edu |
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Abstract: | We consider black hole production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a generic scenario with many extra dimensions where the standard model fields are confined to a brane. With approximately 20 dimensions the hierarchy problem is shown to be naturally solved without the need for large compactification radii. We find that in such a scenario the properties of black holes can be used to determine the number of extra dimensions, . In particular, we demonstrate that measurements of the decay distributions of such black holes at the LHC can determine if is significantly larger than 6 or 7 with high confidence and thus can probe one of the critical properties of string theory compactifications. |
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