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Gravitational Collider Physics via Pulsar-Black Hole Binaries

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-02-24 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose to use pulsar-black hole binaries as a probe of gravitational collider physics. Induced by the gravitation of the pulsar, the atomic transitions of the boson cloud around the black hole back-react on the orbital motion. This leads to the deviation of binary period decrease from that predicted by general relativity, which can be directly probed by the R{\o}mer delay of pulsar time-of-arrivals. The sensitivity and accuracy of this approach is estimated for two typical atomic transitions. It is shown that once the transitions happen within the observable window, the pulsar-timing accuracy is almost always sufficient to capture the resonance phenomenon.

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@article{arxiv.2009.11106,
  title  = {Gravitational Collider Physics via Pulsar-Black Hole Binaries},
  author = {Qianhang Ding and Xi Tong and Yi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.11106},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 7 figures