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Thanks Florida_Jim,Here is the link to the physics paper:

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315001562

 

Absence of black holes at LHC due to gravity's rainbow

 

by Ahmed Farag Ali, Mir Faizal, Mohammed M. Khalil

 

Notice the last line in the conclusion as quoted below:

 

Abstract:

 

In this paper, we investigate the effect of Planckian deformation of quantum gravity on the production of black holes at colliders using the framework of gravity's rainbow. We demonstrate that a black hole remnant exists for Schwarzschild black holes in higher dimensions using gravity's rainbow. The mass of this remnant is found to be greater than the energy scale at which experiments were performed at the LHC. We propose this as a possible explanation for the absence of black holes at the LHC. Furthermore, we demonstrate that it is possible for black holes in six (and higher) dimensions to be produced at energy scales that will be accessible in the near future.

 

Conclusion:

 

In this paper, we have analyzed higher dimensional Schwarzschild black holes in gravity's rainbow. It was expected that black holes will be detected at LHC if large extra dimensions existed. This was because the existence of extra dimensions would lower the effective Planck mass to TeV scale (i.e. LHC energy scale). The absence of any black hole at LHC could thus be interpreted as the absence of large extra dimensions, at least at the energy scale of the LHC. However, we argued that black holes were not detected due to Planckian deformation of quantum gravity, which was not taken into account. As the effective Planck scale was reduced due to the existence of large extra dimensions, it is important that these effects are taken into account. When we did that using gravity's rainbow, we found that the energy needed to form black holes is larger than the energy scale of the LHC, but is within reach of the next particle colliders.

 

 

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"The LHC is entering its second season of operation. Thanks to the work done in the last two years, it will operate at unprecedented energy - almost double that of season 1 - at 6.5 TeV per beam. With 13 TeV proton-proton collisions expected before summer, the LHC experiments will soon be exploring uncharted territory."

 

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/proton-beams-are-back-lhc

 

 

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Anybody notice that the date of that paper is April 9, 2015 and today is April 5?

Freaking amazing! And I also noticed that my copy of Cook's Magazine came and it is dated May-June 2015. Could it be?Oh, damn. What's that? You mean the good folks at Physics Letters B started putting Volume 743 together six months ago and dated it April 9th? Whoda thunk it. I never knew that magazines operated that way. I always thought that they used time machines to circulate their editions.

 

 

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