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EPL
Volume 118, Number 5, June 2017
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| Article Number | 50008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/118/50008 | |
| Published online | 21 August 2017 | |
Virtual black holes from the generalized uncertainty principle and proton decay
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy - King Saud University - Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
2 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study - Korte Spinhuissteeg 3, 1012 CG Amsterdam, Netherlands
3 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Benha University - Benha, 13518, Egypt
Received: 15 May 2017
Accepted: 21 July 2017
We investigate the formation of virtual black holes in the context of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), as a mediator for a proton decay process which is forbidden by the standard model. Then, we calculate the lower bounds of the GUP deformation parameter by the experimental bound on the half-life of the proton.
PACS: 04.60.Bc – Phenomenology of quantum gravity / 04.70.Dy – Quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics
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