
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday, 4 June 2003
Time:
3:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker: Doug Eardley, UCSB
Title: Black Hole
Production in High Energy Collisions?
Abstract: The idea of extra
dimensions is a very old one, but recent theoretical work has suggested
the possibility that laboratory experiments at future colliders, or observations
of cosmic rays, could actually access them. This possibility, while
unlikely, is so attractive for many reasons that it demands most serious
consideration. The most spectacular signature would be production
of small black holes and their subsequent decay; missing energy would
be a less spectacular but still revolutionary signature. I will discuss
the phenomenology of the production and decay of black holes in high-energy
particle collisions, assuming that the Planck energy is low enough to allow
such experiments.
Host: J. Feng