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Cosmology Seminar: Brad Holden (UC Santa Cruz)
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SPECIAL: Don Coyne (SCIPP)
| What | seminar |
|---|---|
| When |
20 April 07 from 03:30 pm to 04:30 pm |
| Where | FKB 2nd floor conf room |
| Contact Name | Gary Godfrey |
| Contact Email | godfrey@slac.stanford.edu |
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A Scenario for Strong Gravity without Extra Dimensions
This talk first reviews why many physicists think strong gravity, extra dimensions and black holes may be discovered at LHC. Then I offer a different possible reason for the apparent weakness of the gravitational interaction, and explore a simple model showing quantitative results of surprising richness resulting from this assumption.
The consequences for Hawking evaporation of a Schwarzschild black hole show the hole will undergo a type of phase transition resulting in variously long-lived objects of reasonable sizes, with normal thermodynamic properties and inherent duality characteristics.
In particular, this scenario predicts a completely different pattern and behavior for black hole production at LHC, and makes a connection between these objects and basic elements of low-energy theories.
(No pre-knowledge of the intricacies of black hole thermodynamics or other arcane theory is assumed for this talk!)
MASS: Paul Simeon