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Mini Black Holes in the first year of the LHC
The experimental signatures of TeV-mass black hole (BH) formation in heavy
ion collisions at the LHC is examined. We find that the black hole production
results in a complete disappearance of all very high ({} GeV)
back-to-back correlated di-jets of total mass {}TeV. We show
that the subsequent Hawking-decay produces multiple hard mono-jets and discuss
their detection. We study the possibility of cold black hole remnant (BHR)
formation of mass and the experimental distinguishability of
scenarios with BHRs and those with complete black hole decay. Due to the rather
moderate luminosity in the first year of LHC running the least chance for the
observation of BHs or BHRs at this early stage will be by ionizing tracks in
the ALICE TPC. Finally we point out that stable BHRs would be interesting
candidates for energy production by conversion of mass to Hawking radiation.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure