Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider
Abstract
A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb^(−1). Events with large total transverse energy are analyzed for the presence of multiple high-energy jets, leptons, and photons, typical of a signal expected from a microscopic black hole. Good agreement with the standard model backgrounds, dominated by QCD multijet production, is observed for various final-state multiplicities and model-independent limits on new physics in these final states are set. Using simple semi-classical approximation, limits on the minimum black hole mass are derived as well, in the range 3.5–4.5 TeV. These are the first direct limits on black hole production at a particle accelerator.
Additional Information
© 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. Received 15 December 2010; Received in revised form 5 February 2011; Accepted 13 February 2011; Available online 15 February 2011. Editor: M. Doser. This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. We wish to congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC machine. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland, ME, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLPFAI (Mexico); PAEC (Pakistan); SCSR (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MST and MAE (Russia); MSTD (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).Attached Files
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- FMSR (Austria)
- FNRS (Belgium)
- FWO (Belgium)
- CNPq (Brazil)
- CAPES (Brazil)
- FAPERJ (Brazil)
- FAPESP (Brazil)
- MES (Bulgaria)
- CERN (China)
- CAS (China)
- MoST (China)
- NSFC (China)
- COL-CIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES (Croatia)
- RPF (Cyprus)
- Academy of Sciences (Estonia)
- NICPB (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland
- ME (Finland)
- HIP (Finland)
- CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique), France
- CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- BMBF (Germany)
- DFG (Germany)
- HGF (Germany)
- GSRT (Greece)
- OTKA (Hungary)
- NKTH (Hungary)
- DAE (India)
- DST (India)
- IPM (Iran)
- SFI (Ireland)
- INFN (Italy)
- NRF (Korea)
- WCU (Korea)
- LAS (Lithuania)
- CINVESTAV (Mexico)
- CONACyT (Mexico)
- SEP (Mexico)
- UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- PAEC (Pakistan)
- SCSR (Poland)
- FCT (Portugal)
- JINR (Armenia)
- JINR (Belarus)
- JINR (Georgia)
- JINR (Ukraine)
- JINR (Uzbekistan)
- MST (Russia)
- MAE (Russia)
- MSTD (Serbia)
- MICINN (Spain)
- NSC (Taipei)
- TUBITAK (Turkey)
- TAEK (Turkey)
- STFC (United Kingdom)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
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