Cosmic ray signals from mini black holes in models with extra dimensions: An analytical/Monte Carlo study

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1477-1501

  Cafarella, Alessandro ^a   Corianò, Claudio ^a   Tomaras, Theodore N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

branes; Black Holes; High Energy Cosmic Rays; Large Extra Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144457105     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/06/065     Document Type: Article

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52. More graphs and other important details may be found in the first version of A. Cafarella, C. Corianò and T.N. Tomaras, Cosmic ray signals from mini black holes in models with extra dimensions: an analytical/Monte Carlo study [hep-ph/0410358]