109 research outputs found
Small Black Holes on Branes: Is the horizon regular or singular ?
We investigate the following question: Consider a small mass, with
(the ratio of the Schwarzschild radius and the bulk curvature length) much
smaller than 1, that is confined to the TeV brane in the Randall-Sundrum I
scenario. Does it form a black hole with a regular horizon, or a naked
singularity? The metric is expanded in and the asymptotic form of
the metric is given by the weak field approximation (linear in the mass). In
first order of we show that the iteration of the weak field
solution, which includes only integer powers of the mass, leads to a solution
that has a singular horizon. We find a solution with a regular horizon but its
asymptotic expansion in the mass also contains half integer powers.Comment: Accepted for publication in PR
Wormholes and Supersymmetry
Revisions: reference added to: G. Gilbert, {\sl Nucl.Phys.} {\bf B328}, 159
(1989)Comment: 29 pages, jnl, McGill/92-2
Magnetic Wormholes and Vertex Operators
We consider wormhole solutions in Euclidean dimensions. A duality
transformation is introduced to derive a new action from magnetic wormhole
action of Gupta, Hughes, Preskill and Wise. The classical solution is
presented. The vertex operators corresponding to the wormhole are derived.
Conformally coupled scalars and spinors are considered in the wormhole
background and the vertex operators are computed. ( To be published in Phys.
Rev. D15)Comment: 18 pages of RevTex, preprint IP/BBSR/94-2
Renormalization group improved black hole space-time in large extra dimensions
By taking into account a running of the gravitational coupling constant with
an ultra violet fixed point, an improvement of classical black hole space-times
in extra dimensions is studied. It is found that the thermodynamic properties
in this framework allow for an effective description of the black hole
evaporation process. Phenomenological consequences of this approach are
discussed and the LHC discovery potential is estimated.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
Discovering New Physics in the Decays of Black Holes
If the scale of quantum gravity is near a TeV, the LHC will be producing one
black hole (BH) about every second, thus qualifying as a BH factory. With the
Hawking temperature of a few hundred GeV, these rapidly evaporating BHs may
produce new, undiscovered particles with masses ~100 GeV. The probability of
producing a heavy particle in the decay depends on its mass only weakly, in
contrast with the exponentially suppressed direct production. Furthemore, BH
decays with at least one prompt charged lepton or photon correspond to the
final states with low background. Using the Higgs boson as an example, we show
that it may be found at the LHC on the first day of its operation, even with
incomplete detectors.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
A Conformal Field Theory of a Rotating Dyon
A conformal field theory representing a four-dimensional classical solution
of heterotic string theory is presented. The low-energy limit of this solution
has U(1) electric and magnetic charges, and also nontrivial axion and dilaton
fields. The low-energy metric contains mass, NUT and rotation parameters. We
demonstrate that this solution corresponds to part of an extremal limit of the
Kerr-Taub-NUT dyon solution. This limit displays interesting `remnant'
behaviour, in that asymptotically far away from the dyon the angular momentum
vanishes, but far down the infinite throat in the neighbourhood of the horizon
(described by our CFT) there is a non-zero angular velocity. A further natural
generalization of the CFT to include an additional parameter is presented, but
the full physical interpretation of its role in the resulting low energy
solution is unclear.Comment: 43 pages, Plain TEX + epsf.tex for one uuencoded figure
Uniqueness Theorem for Static Black Hole Solutions of sigma-models in Higher Dimensions
We prove the uniqueness theorem for self-gravitating non-linear sigma-models
in higher dimensional spacetime. Applying the positive mass theorem we show
that Schwarzschild-Tagherlini spacetime is the only maximally extended, static
asymptotically flat solution with non-rotating regular event horizon with a
constant mapping.Comment: 5 peges, Revtex, to be published in Class.Quantum Gra
High Energy Colliders as Black Hole Factories: The End of Short Distance Physics
If the fundamental Planck scale is of order a TeV, as the case in some
extra-dimensions scenarios, future hadron colliders such as the Large Hadron
Collider will be black hole factories. The non-perturbative process of black
hole formation and decay by Hawking evaporation gives rise to spectacular
events with up to many dozens of relatively hard jets and leptons, with a
characteristic ratio of hadronic to leptonic activity of roughly 5:1. The total
transverse energy of such events is typically a sizeable fraction of the beam
energy. Perturbative hard scattering processes at energies well above the
Planck scale are cloaked behind a horizon, thus limiting the ability to probe
short distances. The high energy black hole cross section grows with energy at
a rate determined by the dimensionality and geometry of the extra dimensions.
This dependence therefore probes the extra dimensions at distances larger than
the Planck scale.Comment: Latex, 28 pages. v4: minor changes, largely to agree with published
version; appendix added comparing convention
An Anisotropic Wormhole:TUNNELLING in Time and Space
We discuss the structure of a gravitational euclidean instanton obtained
through coupling of gravity to electromagnetism. Its topology at fixed is
. This euclidean solution can be interpreted as a tunnelling to
a hyperbolic space (baby universe) at or alternatively as a static
wormhole that joins the two asymptotically flat spaces of a
Reissner--Nordstr\"om type solution with .Comment: PLAIN-TEX, 16 pages (4 figures not included), Report DFTT 2/9
Charged black holes in effective string theory
We investigate the qualitative new features of charged dilatonic black holes
which emerge when both the Yang-Mills and Gauss-Bonnet curvature corrections
are included in the effective action. We consider perturbative effects by an
expansion up to second order in the inverse string tension on the four
dimensional Schwarzschild background and determine the backreaction. We
calculate the thermodynamical functions and show that for magnetic charge above
a critical value, the temperature of the black hole has a maximum and goes to
zero for a finite value of the mass. This indicates that the conventional
Hawking evaporation law is modified by string theory at a classical level.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures not included, plain Te
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