What Black Holes Can Teach Us

TL;DR

This paper explores how black holes connect various physics fields and how tiny black holes could be produced at future colliders to test quantum gravity and physics beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

It provides an accessible overview of black hole physics and its implications for testing theories of quantum gravity and extra dimensions at colliders.

Findings

Black holes unify different physics disciplines.

Tiny black holes could be produced at future colliders with extra dimensions.

Black hole physics is crucial for understanding physics beyond the Standard Model.

Abstract

Black holes merge together different field of physics. From General Relativity over thermodynamics and quantum field theory, they do now also reach into the regime of particle and collider physics. In the presence of additional compactified dimensions, it would be possible to produce tiny black holes at future colliders. We would be able to test Planck scale physics and the onset of quantum gravity. The understanding of black hole physics is a key knowledge to the phenomenology of these new effects beyond the Standard Model. This article gives a brief introduction into the main issues and is addressed to a non-expert audience.