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

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.

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• Figure 1: Horizon radius (in GeV$^{-1}$) of a non-rotating black-hole as a function of mass for 4-10 spatial dimensions.
• Figure 2: Hawking temperature(in GeV) of a non-rotating black-hole as a function of mass for 4-10 spatial dimensions.
• Figure 3: Horizon radius (in GeV$^{-1}$) of a black-hole as a function of mass for different B in d=5 spatial dimensions.
• Figure 4: Hawking temperature(in GeV) of a black-hole as a function of mass for different B in d=5 spatial dimensions.
• Figure 5: Horizon radius (in GeV$^{-1}$) of a rotating black-hole as a function of mass for different angular momentum in d=5 spatial dimensions. Angular momentum J is in unit of $\hbar$.