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Black holes with electroweak hair

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-10-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We construct static and axially symmetric magnetically charged hairy black holes in the gravity-coupled Weinberg-Salam theory. Large black holes merge with the Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN) family, while the small ones are extremal and support a hair in the form of a ring-shaped electroweak condensate carrying superconducting W-currents and up to 22%22\% of the total magnetic charge. The extremal solutions are asymptotically RN with a mass {\it below} the total charge, M<QM<|Q|, due to the negative Zeeman energy of the condensate interacting with the black hole magnetic field. Therefore, they cannot decay into RN black holes. As their charge increases, they show a phase transition when the horizon symmetry changes from spherical to oblate. At this point they have the mass typical for planetary size black holes of which 11%\approx 11\% is stored in the hair. Being obtained within a well-tested theory, our solutions are expected to be physically relevant.

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@article{arxiv.2406.14357,
  title  = {Black holes with electroweak hair},
  author = {Romain Gervalle and Mikhail S. Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14357},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

5+8 pages, 5+1 figures, matches the published version

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