BlackMax: A black-hole event generator with rotation, recoil, split branes, and brane tension

By D. Dai, Glenn Starkman, D. Stojkovic, C. Issever, Eram Rizvi, J. Tseng. 2007

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We present a comprehensive black-hole event generator, BlackMax, which simulates the experimental signatures of microscopic and Planckian black-hole production and evolution at the LHC in the context of brane world models with low-scale quantum gravity. The generator is based on phenomenologically realistic models free of serious problems that plague low-scale gravity, thus offering more realistic predictions for hadron-hadron colliders. The generator includes all of the black-hole gray-body factors known to date and incorporates the effects of black-hole rotation, splitting between the fermions, nonzero brane tension, and black-hole recoil due to Hawking radiation (although not all simultaneously). The generator can be interfaced with Herwig and Pythia. The main code can be downloaded from http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/{approx}issever/BlackMax/blackmax.html.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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ATLAS search for new phenomena in dijet mass and angular distributions using pp collisions at √s=7 TeV (2012, methodology): “A model for quantum black holes, QBH, that decay to two jets is simulated using BlackMax [60] with the CT10 PDF to produce a simple two-body ﬁnal state scenario of quantum gravitational eﬀects at the reduced Planck Scale M D , with n = 6 extra spatial dimensions.”