Black Holes at the LHC: Progress since 2002

Abstract

Abstract. We review the recent noticeable progresses in black hole physics focusing on the up-coming super-collider, the LHC. We discuss the classical formation of black holes by particle collision, the greybody factors for higher dimensional rotating black holes, the deep implications of black hole physics to the 'energy-distance' relation, the security issues of the LHC associated with black hole formation and the newly developed Monte-Carlo generators for black hole events.Keywords: black hole, extra dimensions, the LHC FIGURE 1. Energy-Distance relation is given. The horizontal axis is for the amount of energy we can have and the vertical axis is for the smallest distance scale we can probe with the given energy.