Freiburg 2008 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 10: Hauptvorträge Donnerstag

GR 10.3: Hauptvortrag

Donnerstag, 6. März 2008, 09:45–10:30, KGI-HS 1010

Black Hole Production at the LHC — •Matthew W. Choptuik — Albert-Einstein-Institute, Golm — Dept of Physics & Astronomy, UBC, Vancouver, Canada

One of the most exciting and provocative claims arising from the possibilty that the Planck scale energy might lie near the TeV scale, is that the LHC may in fact turn out to be a mini-black-hole factory. In this talk I will briefly summarize the reasoning that underlies the claim, and discuss some possible weaknesses in the arguments. I will then report on numerical calculations aimed at determining to what extent some of the key assumptions used in the estimation of black-hole cross-sections in accelerator experiments can be expected to hold.