Centauros and string theory

[Lubos Motl]

After some time, I randomly opened the entry "Superstring" on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstring

and the first link under "See also" is "Centauro event". Whoever added it,
it's interesting. So I learned that Centauro events represent a puzzle in
cosmic ray physics and some Greek and Russian physicists claim that they
could be small black holes from large dimension scenarios, e.g.

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0311318

Has anyone knowledge or an opinion about it? Best, Lubos
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[Thomas Dent]

(...) Centauro events represent a puzzle in
cosmic ray physics and some Greek and Russian physicists claim that they
could be small black holes from large dimension scenarios, e.g.
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0311318
Has anyone knowledge or an opinion about it? Best, Lubos

As one can read in the paper, even the events themselves are debated,
since they are not seen consistently at all experiments.

It seems a quite eccentric topic, given the complexity of the physics
underlying any of the explanations and the doubtful nature of
observations. If (if!) I were looking to prove low scale string models
I would not look at Centauros first, they would be at best a small
piece of corroboration to what "should" be found at LHC.

Thomas