Black hole production in TeV-scale gravity, and the future of high energy physics

TL;DR

If the Planck scale is around a TeV, black holes could be produced at colliders and cosmic ray interactions, impacting future high-energy physics research, with a review of models and estimates of production rates.

Contribution

This paper unifies the approaches of large extra dimensions and warped compactification to analyze black hole production at TeV scales.

Findings

Black hole production is possible at TeV energies in collider and cosmic ray interactions.

Estimates of black hole production rates are provided.

Implications for future high-energy physics experiments are discussed.

Abstract

If the Planck scale is near a TeV, black hole production should be possible at colliders, as well as by cosmic rays. I begin with a review of the two approaches to TeV-scale gravity, large extra dimensions and warped compactification, presented in a unified framework. Then properties of such black holes and estimates of their production rates are given, and consequences for the future of high-energy experimental physics are discussed.