Black Holes at Future Colliders and Beyond

Abstract

One of the most dramatic consequences of low-scale (~1 TeV) quantum gravity is 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 rich phenomenology. We discuss tests of Wien's law of Hawking radiation, which is 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.

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, uses moriond02.sty, included. Talk given at the XXXVIIth Rencontres de Moriond "QCD and Hadronic interactions," Les Arcs, March 16-23, 2002