Dear colleagues,
this Wednesday we have a colloquium about
Out-of-This-World Physics: Black Holes in the Lab, 26. Mai 2004
Greg Landsberg Brown University
"If the scale of quantum gravity is as low as a TeV, as has been proposed by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali a few years ago, one of its most dramatic manifestations would be copious production of miniature black holes at the CERN's LHC accelerator, qualifying the latter for a black-hole factory. These rapidly evaporating black holes could serve as sensitive probes of quantum gravity effects, topology of extra dimensions, and as a laboratory to produce new particles with the mass ~100 GeV. I'll discuss black hole production and decay mechanisms at future colliders and the opportunities for cosmic ray detectors to observe black holes in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray collisions. Using the Higgs boson as an example, I'll demonstrate that it can be found in the decays of black holes as early as in the first hour of operation of the LHC, even with incomplete detectors."
See also http://www.physik.unizh.ch/teaching/kolloquium.html for details.