Effect of charged partons on black hole production at the Large Hadron Collider

The cross section for black hole production in hadron colliders is calculated using a factorization hypothesis in which the parton-level process is integrated over the parton density functions of the protons. The mass, spin, charge, colour, and finite size of the partons are usually ignored. We examine the effects of parton electric charge on black hole production using the trapped-surface approach of general relativity. Accounting for electric charge of the partons could reduce the black hole cross section by one to four orders of magnitude at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross section results are sensitive to the Standard Model brane thickness. Lower limits on the amount of energy trapped behind the event horizon in the collision of charged particles are also calculated.