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Black hole bound on the number of species and quantum gravity at CERN LHC

Dvali, Gia
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Redi, Michele
2008
Physical Review D [1970-2015]

In theories with a large number N of particle species, black hole physics imposes an upper bound on the mass of the species equal to M-Planck/root N. This bound suggests a novel solution to the hierarchy problem in which there are N approximate to 10(32) gravitationally coupled species, for example 10(32) copies of the standard model. The black hole bound forces them to be at the weak scale, hence providing a stable hierarchy. We present various arguments, that in such theories the effective gravitational cutoff is reduced to Lambda(G)approximate to M-Planck/root N and a new description is needed around this scale. In particular, black holes smaller than Lambda(-1)(G) are already no longer semiclassical. The nature of the completion is model dependent. One natural possibility is that Lambda(G) is the quantum gravity scale. We provide evidence that within this type of scenarios, contrary to the standard intuition, micro-black-holes have a (slowly fading) memory of the species of origin. Consequently, the black holes produced at LHC will predominantly decay into the standard model particles, and negligibly into the other species.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.045027
Web of Science ID

WOS:000253764800118

Author(s)
Dvali, Gia
Redi, Michele
Date Issued

2008

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review D [1970-2015]
Volume

77

Issue

4

Article Number

045027

Subjects

Baryon Number

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String Theory

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Nonexistence

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Dimensions

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Millimeter

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Hierarchy

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Symmetry

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Freedom

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Hair

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