  Small black holes potentially created by the Large Hadron Collider could
typically carry color charges inherited from their parton progenitors. The
dynamics of quarks near such a black hole depends on the curved spacetime
geometry as well as the strong interaction due to the color charge of the black
hole. We use the AdS/CFT Correspondence to study the behavior of
strongly-coupled quarks near a color-charged black hole. The supergravity
background consists of a six-dimensional Schwarzschild-black string AdS
soliton, for which the bulk horizon extends from the AdS boundary down to an
infra-red floor. By going to higher energy scales, the regime of validity of
the classical supergravity background can be extended closer to the singularity
than might be expected from the four-dimensional perspective. We study the
resulting behavior of quarks and compute the rate at which a quark rotating
around the black hole loses energy as a function of its mass parameter and
angular velocity. We also analyze the behavior of quark-antiquark string
configurations and discuss features such as the quark-antiquark screening
length.
