Phenomenology of production and decay of spinning extra-dimensional black holes at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Frost, James A ^a   Gaunt, Jonathan R ^a   Sampaio, Marco O P ^a   Casals, Marc ^b,c   Dolan, Sam R ^d   Parker, M Andrew ^a   Webber, Bryan R ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Hadronic Colliders; Large Extra Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449111502     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/014     Document Type: Article

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