EpiStack

H-3 - A TeV string scale would make LHC collisions produce strong-gravity phenomena including black holes

1 min read

Properties12
type
hypothesis
id
H-3
state
active
question
Can LHC-energy collisions produce microscopic black holes or other quantum-gravity states?
statement
If the fundamental (higher-dimensional) gravity or string scale lies near 1 TeV - via large extra dimensions or strong warping - then LHC parton collisions can produce strong-gravity phenomena including microscopic black holes of minimum mass roughly 3-5 times the fundamental scale, together with, in the string realization, narrow Regge excitations of SM particles and large-missing-energy graviton-emission events.
cluster
HC-2 - Dominant collider manifestation of low-scale quantum gravity
source
S-17 - Antoniadis, Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, Dvali 1998 — millimeter-to-fermi dimensions and TeV strings
quote
This scenario raises the exciting possibility that the LHC and NLC will experimentally study ordinary aspects of string physics such as the production of narrow Regge-excitations of all standard model particles, as well more exotic phenomena involving strong gravity such as the production of black holes.
merged_from
additional_sources
locator
  • S-17: Abstract; §3.1, eqs. (6)-(8)
  • S-37: §1; §3.1-3.2, Eqs. (3.5)-(3.13); Appendix E.1
generalization_note
Widened the antecedent from a TeV type-I string scale to generic TeV-scale gravity (large extra dimensions or warping) and absorbed the Giddings-Mangano production-threshold clause; the mechanism distinction is retained in the separate model hypotheses H-2 and H-4, and no curated observation discriminates the two production claims.

The collider-black-hole prediction is conditional on the TeV-gravity premise: single-graviton emission scales as sigma(E) ~ (n+2)^2 E^n / M_I^(n+2), negligible below M_I but abrupt at E ~ M_I; above M_I graviton emission is analogous to Hawking radiation from an excited brane. This is one of the two foundational routes (with warped RS geometry) by which LHC black-hole production becomes kinematically conceivable at all.

Graph View

Show model graphinteractive Bayesian view — separate from the graph above
added after the FLF submission deadline

Backlinks