Abstract:

If the scale of quantum gravity is near TeV, the CERN Large Hadron Collider will be producing one black hole about every second. The decays of the black holes into the final states with prompt, hard photons, electrons, or muons provide a clean signature with low background. The correlation between the black hole mass and its temperature, deduced from the energy spectrum of the decay products, can test Hawking's evaporation law and determine the number of large new dimensions and the scale of quantum gravity. I will also discuss black hole production at the proposed future high-energy colliders, such as CLIC and VLHC, and describe the Monte Carlo event generator that can be used to study black hole production and decay.