BlackMax: A black-hole event generator with rotation, recoil, split branes and brane tension

TL;DR

BlackMax is a detailed black-hole event generator for LHC simulations, incorporating rotation, recoil, brane tension, and splitting effects, providing realistic predictions for microscopic black-hole signatures in brane world models.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, realistic black-hole event generator that includes multiple complex effects, improving simulation accuracy for low-scale quantum gravity models at colliders.

Findings

Includes all known black-hole graybody factors

Models effects of rotation, recoil, and brane tension

Can be interfaced with Herwig and Pythia

Abstract

We present a comprehensive black-hole event generator, BlackMax, which simulates the experimental signatures of microscopic and Planckian black-hole production and evolution at the LHC in the context of brane world models with low-scale quantum gravity. The generator is based on phenomenologically realistic models free of serious problems that plague low-scale gravity, thus offering more realistic predictions for hadron-hadron colliders. The generator includes all of the black-hole graybody factors known to date and incorporates the effects of black-hole rotation, splitting between the fermions, non-zero brane tension and black-hole recoil due to Hawking radiation (although not all simultaneously). The generator can be interfaced with Herwig and Pythia.