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Hawking tunneling and boomerang behaviour of massive particles with E < m

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-02-15 v1

Abstract

Massive particles are radiated from black holes through the Hawking mechanism together with the more familiar radiation of massless particles. For E>=mE >= m, the emission rate is identical to the massless case. But E<mE < m particles can also tunnel across the horizon. A study of the dispersion relation and wave packet simulations show that their classical trajectory is similar to that of a boomerang. The tunneling formalism is used to calculate the probability for detecting such E<mE < m particles, for a Schwarzschild black hole of astrophysical size or in an analogue gravity experiment, as a function of the distance from the horizon and the energy of the particle.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1729,
  title  = {Hawking tunneling and boomerang behaviour of massive particles with E < m},
  author = {Gil Jannes and Thomas G. Philbin and Germain Rousseaux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1729},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE2011)