https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2448-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Charged black hole remnants at the LHC
1
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126, Bologna, Italy
2
Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
3
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126, Bologna, Italy
4
Institute of Space Science, P.O. Box MG-23, 077125, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
* e-mail: roberto.casadio@bo.infn.it
Received:
25
March
2013
Revised:
22
April
2013
Published online:
4
June
2013
We investigate possible signatures of long-lived (or stable) charged black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, we find that black hole remnants are characterised by quite low speed. Due to this fact, the charged remnants could, in some cases, be very clearly distinguished from the background events, exploiting dE/dX measurements. We also compare the estimate energy released by such remnants with that of typical Standard Model particles, using the Bethe–Bloch formula.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and Società Italiana di Fisica, 2013
