https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4228-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Quantum production of black holes at colliders
1
Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, P.O. Box MG-23, 077125, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
2
Physics Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
3
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Università di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126, Bologna, Italy
4
I.N.F.N., Sezione di Bologna, viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
* e-mail: nicusorarsene@spacescience.ro
Received:
22
February
2016
Accepted:
23
June
2016
Published online:
8
July
2016
We investigate black hole production in 
collisions at the Large Hadron Collider by employing the horizon quantum mechanics for models of gravity with extra spatial dimensions. This approach can be applied to processes around the fundamental gravitational scale and naturally yields a suppression below the fundamental gravitational scale and for increasing number of extra dimensions. The results of numerical simulations performed with the black hole event generator BLACKMAX are here reported in order to illustrate the main differences in the numbers of expected black hole events and mass distributions.
© The Author(s), 2016
