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Fermions Tunnelling from Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v5

Abstract

We investigate the tunnelling of spin 1/2 particles through event horizons. We first apply the tunnelling method to Rindler spacetime and obtain the Unruh temperature. We then apply fermion tunnelling to a general non-rotating black hole metric and show that the Hawking temperature is recovered.

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@article{arxiv.0710.0612,
  title  = {Fermions Tunnelling from Black Holes},
  author = {Ryan Kerner and R. B. Mann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0612},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

22 pages, v2: added references, v3: fixed minor typos, v4: added a new section applying fermion tunnelling method to Kruskal-Szekers coordinates, fixed minor typo, and added references, v5: modified introduction and conclusion, fixed typos

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