Dark Spinors Hawking Radiation in String Theory Black Holes

The Hawking radiation spectrum of Kerr-Sen axion-dilaton black holes is derived, in the context of dark spinors tunnelling across the horizon. Since a black hole has a well defined temperature, it should radiate in principle all the standard model particles, similar to a black body at that temperature. We investigate the tunnelling of mass dimension one spin-1/2 dark fermions, that are beyond the standard model and are prime candidates to the dark matter. Their interactions with the standard model matter and gauge fields are suppressed by at least one power of unification scale, being restricted just to the Higgs field and to the graviton likewise. The tunnelling method for the emission and absorption of mass dimension one particles across the event horizon of Kerr-Sen axion-dilaton black holes is shown here to provide further evidence for the universality of black hole radiation, further encompassing particles beyond the standard model.Comment: 11 pages, improved version, to appear in AHE

Horizon of quantum black holes in various dimensions

We adapt the horizon wave-function formalism to describe massive static spherically symmetric sources in a general $(1+D)$-dimensional space-time, for $D>3$ and including the $D=1$ case. We find that the probability $P_{\rm BH}$ that such objects are (quantum) black holes behaves similarly to the probability in the $(3+1)$ framework for $D> 3$. In fact, for $D\ge 3$, the probability increases towards unity as the mass grows above the relevant $D$-dimensional Planck scale $m_D$. At fixed mass, however, $P_{\rm BH}$ decreases with increasing $D$, so that a particle with mass $m\simeq m_D$ has just about $10\%$ probability to be a black hole in $D=5$, and smaller for larger $D$. This result has a potentially strong impact on estimates of black hole production in colliders. In contrast, for $D=1$, we find the probability is comparably larger for smaller masses, but $P_{\rm BH} < 0.5$, suggesting that such lower dimensional black holes are purely quantum and not classical objects. This result is consistent with recent observations that sub-Planckian black holes are governed by an effective two-dimensional gravitation theory. Lastly, we derive Generalised Uncertainty Principle relations for the black holes under consideration, and find a minimum length corresponding to a characteristic energy scale of the order of the fundamental gravitational mass $m_D$ in $D>3$. For $D=1$ we instead find the uncertainty due to the horizon fluctuations has the same form as the usual Heisenberg contribution, and therefore no fundamental scale exists.Comment: Latex, 16 pages, 8 figures. Final version to appear in PL

VSR symmetries in the DKP algebra: the interplay between Dirac and Elko spinor fields

VSR symmetries are here naturally incorporated in the DKP algebra on the spin-0 and the spin-1 DKP sectors. We show that the Elko (dark) spinor fields structure plays an essential role on accomplishing this aim, unravelling hidden symmetries on the bosonic DKP fields under the action of discrete symmetries.Comment: 17 page

Curva do equilíbrio higroscópico da castanha de caju.

Coeficiente entres de correlacao entre umidade relativa do ar (URA) e grau de umidade das castanhas, avaliados a partir do mes em que se deu o equilibrio hidroscopico ... Valores do grau de umidade das castanhas de caju no ponto de equilibrio hidrocopico, em funcao as medias historicas da URA.bitstream/CNPAT-2010/5350/1/Ct-022.pd