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Black-hole bombs at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A particle scattered off by a rotating black hole can be amplified when the system is in the superradiant regime. If the system is surrounded by a mirror which reflects the particle back to the black hole the whole system forms a black-hole bomb, amplifying the original field exponentially. We show in this paper that higher dimensional black holes can also form black-hole bombs at the LHC. For a pion the ee-folding time for the field amplification is tc10231024t_c\sim 10^{-23}-10^{-24} sec. If the lifetime of the black hole is long enough compared with tct_c, we can observe severely amplified fields.

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@article{arxiv.1104.0496,
  title  = {Black-hole bombs at the LHC},
  author = {Jong-Phil Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.0496},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. More discussions in the Introduction, minor changes; references updated

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