Black Holes at Future Colliders and in Cosmic Rays

TL;DR

This paper reviews the potential production and detection of mini black holes at future colliders and cosmic rays, exploring their phenomenology, Hawking radiation, and implications for extra dimensions and new physics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of mini-black-hole production rates, Hawking radiation signatures, and their use as probes for extra dimensions and new physics in high-energy interactions.

Findings

Mini black holes could be produced at future colliders and cosmic rays.

Hawking radiation can reveal the dimensionality of extra space.

Black hole decays may uncover new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Abstract

One of the most dramatic consequences of low-scale (~1 TeV) quantum gravity would be copious production of mini black holes at future accelerators and in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray interactions. Hawking radiation of these black holes is constrained mainly to our (3+1)-dimensional world and results in their rapid evaporation. We review selected topics in the mini-black-hole phenomenology, such as production rates at colliders and in cosmic rays, Hawking radiation as a sensitive probe of the dimensionality of extra space, as well as an exciting possibility of finding new physics in the decays of black holes.