Randall-Sundrum Black Holes at Colliders
Abstract
In this paper we calculate the evolution of black holes at colliders in the Randall-Sundrum scenario, taking the effect of accretion from the quark-gluon plasma into account. We calculate the evolution using both the canonical and microcanonical ensemble approaches and compare the results to each other and to the well-known corresponding lifetimes for ADD. We find that for an initial mass of 10TeV the canonical lifetime is of the order of 10-25s, which is of the same order of magnitude as its ADD counterpart. In the microcanonical approach, like in ADD, the microcanonical deviations from thermality slow down the evaporation of the black hole, but, unlike in ADD, the black hole does not completely evaporate; it tends to a stable final state of 0.16GeV. As far as we are aware this is the first prediction of a stable black hole remnant using semiclassical gravity.