Black hole production via quantum tunneling
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Particles colliding at impact parameter much larger than the effective gravitational radius can not classically form a black hole and just scatter off the radial potential barrier separating the particles. We show that the process of the black hole production can still go quantum-mechanically via familiar mechanism of the under-barrier tunneling. The mechanism is illustrated for collision of a trans-Planckian particle and a lighter particle. Our analysis reveals instability of trans-Planckian particles against transition to the phase of black hole.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212001,
title = {Black hole production via quantum tunneling},
author = {Sergey N. Solodukhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212001},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk presented at the 3rd Sakharov International Conference on Physics, Moscow, June 2002; to appear in the proceedings of the conference