BlackMax swMATH ID: 11900 Software Authors: D.-C. Dai et al. Description: BlackMax: A black-hole event generator with rotation, recoil, split branes and brane tension. BlackMax is a comprehensive black-hole event generator, which simulates the experimental signature of microscopic and Planckian black-hole production and evolution at the LHC in the context of brane-world models with low-scale quantum gravity. The generator is based on phenomenologically realistic models free of serious problems that plague low-scale gravity, thus offering more realistic predictions for hadron-hadron colliders. The generator includes all of the black-hole gray-body factors known to date and incorporates the effects of black-hole rotation, splitting between the fermions, non-zero brane tension and black-hole recoil due to Hawking radiation (although not all simultaneously). BlackMax simulates only the production and decay of the black holes. It has been interfaced, via the Les Houches accord, to HERWIG and PYTHIA to perform the parton-shower evolution and hadronization of the partons produced in the decay. This is achieved either by directly calling the hadronisation event generators during event simulation, or by producing stand-alone BlackMax output in the Les Houches accord output text file format which can be used as input to Pythia / Herwig. Homepage: http://blackmax.hepforge.org/ Related Software: CHARYBDIS2; Catfish; NINJA; PYTHIA8; CORSIKA Cited in: 17 Documents all top 5 Cited by 26 Authors 3 Micu, Octavian 3 Sampaio, Marco O. P. 3 Stojkovic, Dejan 2 Calmet, Xavier 2 Casadio, Roberto 2 Dai, De-Chang 2 Nicolini, Piero 1 Alberghi, Gian Luigi 1 Caramete, Lauretiu Ioan 1 Fabi, Sergio 1 Gingrich, Douglas M. 1 Harms, Benjamin C. 1 Herdeiro, Carlos A. R. 1 Issever, Cigdem 1 Kanti, Panagiota 1 Orlandi, Alessio 1 Orlando, Domenico 1 Pappas, Nikolaos D. 1 Park, Seong Chan 1 Rebelo, Carmen 1 Rizvi, Eram 1 Saini, Anshul 1 Sperhake, Ulrich 1 Starkman, Glenn D. 1 Tseng, Jeff 1 Winstanley, Elizabeth all top 5 Cited in 7 Serials 10 Journal of High Energy Physics 2 Computer Physics Communications 1 Modern Physics Letters A 1 International Journal of Modern Physics A 1 Classical and Quantum Gravity 1 General Relativity and Gravitation 1 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics all top 5 Cited in 8 Fields 17 Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX) 8 Quantum theory (81-XX) 2 Astronomy and astrophysics (85-XX) 1 Algebraic geometry (14-XX) 1 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer (80-XX) 1 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) Citations by Year