SCIENCE: CERN upgrade will create black holes

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 08:57:55 MDT


This Nature article (subscription may be required):
 http://www.nature.com/nsu/011004/011004-8.html
points out work by Dimopoulos & Landsberg [1]
that suggests when the CERN upgrade is completed
in 2005, it will be capable of producing black holes.
They will be a million times smaller than the nucleus
of an atom and evaporate almost instantly.

Robert
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1. Dimopoulos, S. & Landsberg, G.
   Black holes at the Large Hadron Collider.
   Physical Review Letters, 87, 161602, (2001).



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